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Pencil sketch of wooden fishing platforms with lift nets along a river mouth, with hills in the distance and a figure at the

Mouth of the Arno

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil and chalk sketch of snow-covered Mount Etna at sunrise with smoke rising from its peak and a town below.

Acireale

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a soldier crouching in a snowy trench beside leafless willow trees.

In the Trenches, Winter

Paul-Michel Dupuy, 1910

Pencil sketch in a sketchbook of a Rhone valley landscape with steep mountains, trees, and a village house on terraced slopes

(Sketchbook) Down Rhone Valley from Sion

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pen and ink drawing of collapsed stone ruins with arches and columns among scattered blocks, with hills beyond.

Ruin El Khadin

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of a boatman poling a wooden boat through a bayou lined with gnarled cypress roots and palms.

Bayou Boatman, Florida

Walter Ronald Locke, 1940

Pencil sketch of Caernarvon Castle's towers and battlements above a harbor with moored boats and small stone houses.

Caernarvon Castle

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Mt. Olympus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of a green leaf with camouflaged caterpillars along its edge and brown feeding damage on a dark background.

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

Emma Beach Thayer

Pencil sketch of the riverside town St. Goar on the Rhine with a church spire, barges on the water, and steep wooded hills.

St. Goar from Castle Rheinfels

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil and wash sketch of a stone prison interior with a barred window, vaulted corner, and stone floor.

Interior of Tasso's Prison, Ferrara

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Abstract watercolor of overlapping geometric shapes, arcs, and striped forms in muted browns, grays, and yellows.

No. 2

Will Henry Stevens, 1930

Pencil sketch of a lake with a tower, poplar trees, a sailboat and mountains, in an open sketchbook.

(Sketchbook) Vevey La Tour

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of a lake framed by distant hills, with trees, a stone wall, and small figures in the foreground.

Sea of Tiberias, From Tabor

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and wash drawing of a veiled apparition pointing at a kneeling man while robed figures react in an arched room.

Untitled - Antonio Basoli

Watercolor of a coastal village with houses, trees, and sailboats on blue water, painted in loose colorful brushstrokes.

New England Coastal Village

Maurice Prendergast, 1910

Pencil sketch of a hillside town of flat-roofed houses between mountains, with palm trees and an inscription at lower left.

Syra

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor of rolling plains, rocky bluffs and a distant mountain with a mounted rider and figures crossing the grassland.

The Wichita Mountains from Medicine Bluff, Indian Territory

Hermann Stieffel, 1860

Watercolor landscape of a road, a windmill on a rise, two walking figures, and a large cloudy sky.

Small Landscape (Dutch)

Sr John Varley, 1770

Watercolor of Larnaca harbor with white buildings, a two-masted ship with a red flag, and hills behind the town.

Port of Larnaca

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor of children with a yellow sailboat beached on a sandy shore beside a wooden building and calm water.

Summertime

Winslow Homer, 1880

Loose pencil and colored chalk sketch of a church spire and trees above a river, with reflections in the water.

Landscape

Maxime Emile Louis Maufra, 1910

Abstract painting of layered red, orange and yellow forms with concentric black, gray and white outlines on a pale yellow bac

Study in Rhythm: Red and Gold

Joseph Schillinger, 1930

Watercolor of two seated granite colossi at Thebes, Egypt, with a small figure at right and desert hills behind.

Statues at Memnon, Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Watercolor study of green birch leaves with a small caterpillar camouflaged along a leaf edge against dark shadows.

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

Emma Beach Thayer

Painting of sheep grazing in a green meadow under a flowering tree, with a stream and farm buildings beside a wooden fence.

Pastoral Landscape

Carl Weber, 1920

Watercolor of a log trading post with a grass roof and red doors, figures walking in front, snowy mountains behind.

Old Russian Trading Post, Sitka

Theodore J. Richardson, 1910

Watercolor panorama of Fort Keogh, Montana, with a military post on the plain and figures and horses on a hill in the foregro

Fort Keogh, Montana Territory

Hermann Stieffel, 1880

Watercolor of a branch with green oval leaves and a red serrated maple leaf on a cream background.

Untitled - Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

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

Emma Beach Thayer