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Watercolor of blue gentian flowers on reddish stems with narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Gentian (Gentiana affinis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of two pink fleabane wildflowers with yellow centers and green leaves on thin stems against a cream background.

Pink Fleabane (Erigeron jucundus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of Burgess Milkvetch with purple flowers, green leaves and brown seed pods on a cream background.

Burgess Milkvetch (Astragalus bourgovii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of an orange false dandelion flower on a hairy stem above narrow striped green leaves and a root.

False Dandelion (Agoseris aurantiaca)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Western Yarrow plant with clusters of white flowers and feathery green leaves on a cream background.

Western Yarrow (Achillea lanulosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Southern Bird's Foot Violet plant with purple flowers, lobed green leaves and buds on a cream background.

Southern Bird's Foot Violet (Viola digitata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of red sandstone spires rising above green trees and a dry streambed in a canyon landscape.

The Patriarchs, Zion National Park

Gunnar Widforss, 1920

Portrait of Sarah Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1820

Watercolor of red American columbine flowers with green lobed leaves and slender stems on a pale background.

American Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor botanical study of yellow Dryad flowers with hairy calyces, green scalloped leaves and reddish stems on cream pape

Yellow Dryad (Dryas drummondii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Larger Spotted Beach Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Emma Beach Thayer

Watercolor of a Bearberry Honeysuckle branch with dark red flowers, dark paired berries, and green oval leaves.

Bearberry Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Soft seascape of gentle waves breaking on a pale beach under a hazy, sunlit sky with distant sailboats.

Surf

William Trost Richards, 1870

Painting of a copperhead snake camouflaged among brown and tan dead leaves, with only its head visible at left.

Copperhead Snake on Dead Leaves, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1910

Watercolor of two bog-asphodel stems with white flower clusters and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Bog-Asphodel (Tofieldia intermedia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a juniper branch with blue berries and green needles on a cream background.

Mountain Juniper (Juniperus sibirica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of Silene multicaulis stems with small pink-white flowers, purple calyces and narrow green leaves on pale paper.

Silene multicaulis

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Northern Butterwort plant with three purple flowers on curved stems above green leaves on brown soil.

Northern Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of two Gray Pussytoes plants with fuzzy white and brown flower heads on tall slender stems against a cream backgro

Gray Pussytoes (Antennaria howellii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval portrait miniature of a woman in a white bonnet, lace collar and blue ribbon, in a metal pendant frame.

Mrs. William Boswell Lamb (Margaret Stuart Kerr)

Margaret Lamb, 1790

Watercolor of a dirt road past bare and golden trees under a dramatic blue sky with shafts of sunlight.

Watercolor no. 63, Road

Allen Tucker, 1930

Watercolor of two white trillium flowers and green leaves on pale stems against a light background.

Wake-Robin (Trillium grandiflorum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor botanical study of two green bog orchid stems with small greenish flowers and broad striped leaves on cream paper.

One-Leaf-Bog-Orchid (Habenaria obtusata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a cushion of magenta carpet pink flowers and green needle-like leaves on brown soil, on cream paper.

Carpet Pink (Silene acaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a buff monkeyflower stem with orange tubular blossoms and serrated green leaves on a cream background.

Buff Monkeyflower (Diplacus longiflorus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a wagon train guarded by soldiers firing on a grassy plain as mounted riders attack from the right.

Attack on General Marcy's Train

Hermann Stieffel, 1860

Painting of red Indian paintbrush flowers and a white aster with green stems on tan paper.

Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja rhexifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Watercolor study of a pink flower with green buds and stem on a cream background.

(Untitled--Flower Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of closed blue gentian flowers on green stems with narrow leaves on a cream background.

Closed Gentian (Gentiana andrewskii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of red wind poppies with dark centers, buds and slender green stems on a pale background.

Wind Poppy (Stylomecon heterophylla)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920