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Oil portrait of a mustached man in a fur-collared coat and white bow tie against a red background.

Albert Clifford Barney

Ottilie Roederstein, 1900

Painted portrait of an elderly bald man with white hair holding a pipe, wearing a dark jacket against a dark blue background.

Old Man with Pipe

Ottilie Roederstein, 1859

Elderly woman in pink dress arranging yellow tulips in a blue and white vase beside a chair and delft tiles.

Arranging the Tulips

Gari Melchers, 1928

Painting of a haloed figure rising into a blue sky while robed followers kneel and gaze upward in an arched frame.

The Ascension

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1915

Painting of Christ on the cross with two angels, a dove above, and two kneeling mourners below against a blue sky.

Crucifixion

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1915

Painting of a woman in a white dress with her hand on the mane of a lion in a sunlit grassy meadow.

Supremacy

Frederick Stuart Church, 1887

Painting of a young woman with a basket and a greyhound standing in a meadow of white wildflowers.

Young Girl and Dog

Edward Percy Moran, 1890

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark suit writing at a desk before a wall map and bookshelf.

Lloyd George

Douglas Volk, 1919

Painting of a woman in a black cloak on a Venetian walkway, with gondolas and a red-sailed boat on the canal behind her.

Along the Riva

Eugene Laurent Vail, 1880

A Breton Sunday

Eugene Laurent Vail, 1890

Interior painting of a seated woman in a richly decorated room with arched doorway, chandelier, rug, and framed landscape.

De Forest Interior

Walter Launt Palmer, 1878

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, with a domed building in the distant background.

Abraham Lincoln

George H. Story, 1916

Loose impressionist painting of horse-drawn cabs with red and yellow wheels on a street beside bare trees and buildings.

Cabs

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a tall church tower and spire in muted browns, with small figures and a carriage in a square under a pale s

Church of St. Germain des Pres

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose oil painting of a church tower with spire on a city street, with warm brick buildings and a lone pedestrian under a gre

Eglise de Ville

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Women and girls in shawls stand in a sunlit courtyard before an ornate arched doorway with tiled columns.

Femmes pres des Escaliers no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painted portrait of an elderly man in a wide red hat and red cape against a brown background.

Homme au Chapeau Rouge

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painted street scene of pedestrians and bare trees before a columned classical building under a hazy sky.

La Madeleine no. IV

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a masted sailing ship in a dim harbor at dusk, with hazy buildings along the far shore.

Porte de Cherbourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a city street with an archway, pale buildings, market stalls and small figures under a blue sky.

Porte St. Martin et Enterrement

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Dark painting of a Paris-style street with a carriage, pedestrians, and bare trees under an overcast sky.

Porte St. Martin no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Oil painting of a standing officer in green uniform and a seated woman in yellow headscarf sewing at a table in a room.

Officer with Peasant

Painting of a garden path with flowering plants, a wooden barrel, and a dark doorway beside a sunlit whitewashed wall.

A Garden Path

Robert Henry Logan, 1896

Mural study of helmeted soldiers with rifles and artillery guns amid fire, smoke and a crowd, in olive, blue and orange tones

War (mural study, War Department building, Washington, D.C.)

Kindred McLeary, 1941

Painting of a tall wooden windmill above a snowy red barn, with a small figure at the door under a dark blue sky.

The Windmill

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937

Painting of a seated man playing a teal accordion, with expressive dark brushwork and a mauve background.

Accordion Player

Donald Forbes, 1939

Painting of craggy yellow rock formations, a red-spired church, and barbed wire under a dark stormy sky.

S.F. Ruins, No. 1

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937

Oil portrait of an elderly Navajo man in a red headwrap and geometric woven blanket against a golden background.

Tlizzy-Thlanny

Carl Moon, 1940

Miniature portrait of a young boy in a navy jacket with a white ruffled collar against a pale blue sky.

Samuel Bowden

Samuel Bowden, 1950

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray hair, dark coat and white cravat against a blue sky background.

Ira Allen

William Wood, 1940