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Oval miniature portrait of an older woman in a white ruffled bonnet and dark dress against a brown background, in a gilt fram

Mrs. Ebenezer Williams

Mrs. Ebenezer Williams, 1820

Watercolor of a seated child in a striped top with bold blue, yellow, and green color blocks behind.

Child

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Watercolor of two swamp aster stems with lavender petals, yellow centers, and slender green leaves on a cream background.

Swamp Aster (Aster paludosus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a woman in a pale blue bonnet, white fichu and dark lace-trimmed shawl, against a brown background

Mrs. Tredwell

John Trumbull, 1800

Watercolor of skunk cabbage with dark purple hooded spathes, green leaves and exposed roots, by Mary Vaux Walcott.

Skunk Cabbage (Spathyema foetida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a blue lupine stem with a spike of violet-blue flowers and palmate green leaves on a pale background.

Blue Lupine (Lupinus argenteus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a valley with red-roofed houses, a dirt road, palm trees, and a snow-capped volcano under a hazy sky.

View of Cuernavaca

Henry Otto Wix, 1950

Watercolor of a branch with drooping brown and yellow catkins and small reddish buds against a pale background.

Hazel Alder (Alnus regosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a black coat and white cravat, framed by a border of pearls.

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials A.S.N.

Jean Francois De Vallee, 1800

Watercolor of a serrated green leaf on a brown twig, with a caterpillar camouflaged along its lower edge.

Jagged Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Emma Beach Thayer

Oval miniature portrait of a young man in spectacles, black coat and high white collar against a lavender background.

Gentleman of the Frothingham Family

Moses B. Russell, 1830

Stylized watercolor of a three-masted ship with golden sails battling waves beside rocky cliffs under an orange, cloud-filled

Shipwreck

Da Loria Norman, 1920

Watercolor of a violet plant with purple flowers on slender stems above rounded green leaves on a cream background.

Butterfly Violet (Viola papilionacea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a red coat and white cravat, set in a gold brooch, with reverse inscription.

Sir Guy Carelton

Guy Carleton, 1770

Watercolor of a Virginia stewartia branch with white open flowers, buds, and green leaves on a cream background.

Virginia Stewartia (Stewartia malachodendron)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a small clump of pygmy plants with slender stems, tiny white flowers and reddish-green leaves on dark soil.

Pygmy Androsace (Androsace subumbellata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered grey hair in a purple coat and white cravat, in a metal frame.

Le Duc de Liancourt

Charles Willson Peale, 1790

Watercolor of a wooden waterfront building with drying skins on its wall, canoes on the shore, and masts behind.

Drying Skins, Sitka

Theodore J. Richardson, 1910

Watercolor of a pine branch with green needles and two large dark purple cones against a cream background.

Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Abstract watercolor landscape with layered green, tan, and gray hills, a pale central form, and a soft blue sky.

Untitled (Landscape)

Arthur Dove, 1930

Watercolor botanical study of a willow sprig with green leaves and pink and yellow catkins on a cream background.

Rock Willow (Salix petrophila)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor study of a green caterpillar with pale markings and a red tip, on a narrow paper strip with a hexagonal border.

White Birch Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Watercolor of red columbine flowers with yellow centers, buds and green leaves on thin stems against a pale background.

Red Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1890

Watercolor sketch of the ruined temple columns and stone walls of Baalbek under a pale sky.

Ruins of Balbeck

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Portrait of Carolina Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1820

Watercolor of a pitcher plant with tubular green leaves and a nodding maroon and pink flower on pale paper.

Catesby Pitcherplant (Sarracenia catesaei)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two stems of yellow composite flowers with green basal leaves and brown roots on cream paper.

Montana Parnassia (Parnassia montanesis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of three stems of rose paintbrush flowers with pink bracts and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Rose Paintbrush (Castilleja pallida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of pink meadow fleabane flowers with yellow centers and green leaves on tall, hairy stems.

Meadow Fleabane (Erigeron speciosus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor botanical study of pale pink ghostpipe flowers and slender stems on a cream background.

Ghostpipe (Thalesia uniflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of cut leaf fleabane plant with slender stems and yellow-centered flower heads against a cream background.

Cut Leaf Fleabane (Erigeron compositus nudus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a dogwood branch with clusters of red berries and leaves shaded from green to russet on a pale background.

Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a woman in red beside flowering trees, with turkeys grazing in a meadow and a village in the distance.

Watching the Turkeys

Horatio Walker, 1880

Watercolor of a branching stem with tubular purple penstemon flowers, green leaves and buds on a pale background.

Purple Pentstemon (Pentstemon lyallii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a pink-flowered lambkill shrub with narrow green leaves on two branches against a pale background.

Lambkill (Kalmia angustifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a deerberry branch with clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers and elongated green leaves.

Deerberry (Polycodium stamineum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a dark coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

George Washington Rodgers

George Washington Rodgers, 1820

Watercolor of two sprigs of pink heather with green needle-like leaves and clusters of bell-shaped pink flowers on a pale bac

Pink Heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor botanical study of a partridgeberry sprig with small green leaves, white pink-tinged flowers and one brown berry.

Partridgeberry (Mitchella repena)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a white-flowered Northern Bedstraw stem with whorled green leaves on a cream background.

Northern Bedstraw (Galium boreale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a lodgepole pine branch with green yellow-tipped needles and clustered reddish-brown cones on a pale background

Lodgepole Pine (Pinus Contorta murrayana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of Canada wild ginger with heart-shaped green leaves and two dark maroon flowers on hairy stems.

Canada Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of blue beard-tongue stems with tubular blue and lavender flowers and green leaves on cream paper.

Blue Beard-Tongue (Pentstemon)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Framed miniature portrait of a seated older woman in white shawl and glasses holding knitting needles, with the velvet-lined

Woman Knitting

Mary Ursula Whitlock, 1900

Watercolor of an octagonal log block house with a shingled roof on a grassy hill, with evergreens and mountains behind.

Russian Block House, Alaska, 1900

Theodore J. Richardson, 1900

Watercolor of a California fuchsia stem with red tubular flowers, buds, and narrow green leaves on a beige background.

California Fuschia (Zauschneria californica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of the Yellowstone River with a rider, a canoe, cottonwood trees, tipis and distant bluffs.

The Yellowstone River near Ft. Keogh, Montana

Hermann Stieffel, 1880

Watercolor of white Dutchman's breeches flowers with yellow tips on slender stems above delicate green fern-like leaves.

Dutchman's Breetches (Bikukulla cucullaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with curly brown hair, white cravat and dark coat, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials G. D.

Raphaelle Peale, 1800

Watercolor of slender cotton-grass stems with five fluffy white seed heads on a cream background.

Slender Cotton-Grass (Eriophorum chamissonis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor wall design with a paneled door, allegorical panel of a seated woman and kneeling worker titled Arbitration.

Arbitration

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered grey hair, blue coat, yellow waistcoat and white cravat.

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Peale, 1780

Watercolor of purple Virginia spiderwort flowers and buds among long green leaves on a pale background.

Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two violet-blue butterwort flowers on tall stems rising from a green leaf rosette on a cream background.

Purple Butterwort (Pinguicula elatior)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor study of a green sphinx caterpillar camouflaged against leaves and a reddish branch.

Sphinx Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1920

Watercolor study of red and orange mushrooms growing among green moss, with seed capsules, signed and dated 1880.

(Untitled--Study of Mushrooms)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Watercolor of a pink fumeroot plant with red tubular flowers tipped in yellow and delicate divided green leaves.

Pink Fumeroot (Capnoides sempervirens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Sitka street with a church spire, wooden houses, a cannon, and mountains behind the town.

Lincoln Street, Sitka, 1887

Theodore J. Richardson, 1880

Watercolor of blue and lavender phlox flowers on slender green stems with narrow leaves, against a pale background.

Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a witch hazel branch with spidery yellow flowers, small blossoms, brown seed capsules and bare twigs on pale pa

Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of an anchor, rope, and weathered mooring post on a sandy shore with blue sea behind.

Untitled (Mooring and Anchor)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor botanical study of a nodding campion stem with three drooping seed capsules and narrow green leaves on pale paper.

Nodding Campion (Lychnis apetala)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a spiny cactus with a bright pink flower blooming from its top against a pale background.

Cucumber Cactus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of Venice's lagoon at sunset with a domed church, bell tower, and moored boats with orange sails.

Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio

Thomas Moran, 1900

Watercolor botanical study of a broomrape plant with clustered yellow flowers and brown scaly stems on a cream background.

Broomrape (Orobanche fasciculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a dark coat with a metal frame, shown beside its engraved reverse with a monogram.

Charles William McGinnes

Carl Weinedel, 1830

Watercolor of a fortified castle with red-roofed buildings above a harbor, with a masted ship moored at left.

Castle at Corfu, Greece

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Watercolor of a Fringed Polygala sprig with magenta flowers and green leaves on thin stems, signed M.V.W. 1920.

Fringed Polygala (Polygala paucifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a pale strawberry plant with three white flowers, serrated leaves, red runners and exposed roots.

Pale Strawberry (Fragaria glauca)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor study of two rosebuds on green stems, one deep red and closed, one pale pink and partly open.

Untitled (Rosebuds)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor botanical study of a grayleaf fivefinger plant with yellow flowers, buds, and lobed leaves on a cream background.

Grayleaf Fivefinger (Potentilla glaucophylla)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a witch-hazel branch with clusters of spidery yellow flowers and dark twigs on a pale background.

Witch-Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a moss campion cushion with many small magenta flowers and buds among dense green foliage on pale paper.

Moss Campion (Silene acaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Northern hedysarum plant with pink pea-like flowers, pinnate leaves, and roots, on cream paper.

Northern Hedysarum (Hedysarum boreale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of two nodding onion stems with drooping clusters of pink flowers and long green leaves on a pale background.

Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of pink tubular pentstemon flowers and green leaves on a pale background, by Mary Vaux Walcott.

Menzies Pentstemon (Pentstemon menziesii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a park with trees, clothed and nude figures on a lawn, a horse and rider, and rolling colorful hills.

Park Scene

Maurice Prendergast, 1910

Watercolor of two tall larkspur stems with purple and pale lavender flowers above lobed green leaves.

Tall Larkspur (Delphinium elongatum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of gentian stems with purple buds and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Gentian (Gentiana macounii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of an ivy sprig with green heart-shaped leaves and one large reddish-brown leaf on a cream background.

Untitled (Ivy)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of two reddish stems with clusters of pale flowers and bracts on a cream background, labeled M.V.W. 10.18.1920.

Red Pinesap (Hypopitys lanuginosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of water crowfoot with white yellow-centered flowers, buds and feathery leaves on thin curving stems.

Water Crowfoot (Batrachium trichophyllum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor sketch of a weathered wooden stile with posts, crossbar and plank step, surrounded by grass and foliage.

Untitled (Stile)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of a magenta Cattleya orchid stem with crimson lips and green heart-shaped leaves on cream paper.

Cattlaya superbus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Oval miniature portrait of a smiling man with curly brown hair in a black coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

George W. Newcombe, 1830

Watercolor of white Indian paintbrush stems with pale green bracts, narrow leaves and purple stems on cream paper.

White Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja occidentalis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of pink hedge bindweed flowers, buds, and green arrow-shaped leaves on red climbing stems.

Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia (Convolvulus) sepium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a wild pea vine with magenta and pink flowers, green leaves and curling tendrils on a pale background.

Wild Pea (Lathyrus decaphyllus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a trillium plant with three green leaves, a pale closed bud with red center, and a slender stem.

Trillium discolor

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a butterfly weed branch with orange flower clusters, buds, and green leaves on a cream background.

Butterfly Weed (Ascelpias tuberosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a grassy field with colorful flowers, two blue-green pine trees, and a distant horizon of water.

Watercolor no. 35, Field with Two Pine Trees

Allen Tucker, 1930

Watercolor of a drooping California nutmeg branch with narrow green needles and three oval green fruits on pale paper.

California Nutmeg (Tumion californicum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor study of a torn green leaf with two caterpillars and a hover fly, labeled Class II, division B.

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

Emma Beach Thayer

Watercolor of a gray phacelia stem with clustered purple flowers and finely divided silvery leaves on a pale background.

Gray Phacelia (Phacelia sericea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of the town of Rattenberg beside a river, with a ruined stone tower, mountains, and two small figures on a path.

Rattenberg, Tyrol

Hermann Stieffel, 1880

Watercolor of three yellow ladyslipper orchids with brown twisted petals rising above broad green leaves on a pale background

Small Yellow Ladyslipper (Cypripedium parviflorum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910