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Oil portrait of an older man with a mustache in a dark suit and white collar, one hand resting on a table, against a dark bac

William T. Evans

Alphonse Jongers, 1940

Painting of a large aloe plant with four tall red and yellow flower spikes against a dry landscape and blue mountains.

Aloes

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of mouflon and bobtailed sheep in a wire-fenced enclosure with a log shelter and eucalyptus trees behind.

Moufflon--Bobtailed Sheep

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of four peacocks, some perched on a railing and branches and two displaying fanned tails, beneath a drooping willow.

Trysting at Evening

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of white herons nesting in a bare tree with woven baskets, a ladder, a blue pond and rocks below.

Waterbirds Nesting

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of a suspension bridge with converging cables, curved roadways, and dark blue water under a cloudy sky.

Metropolitan Port

Joseph Stella, 1935

Painting of a woman nursing an infant before an industrial city with smokestacks, with two women beside her.

Industry SAAM-1964.1.92 1

Arthur Durston, 1934

Mural study of figures in a park beneath a large tree, with birds in flight, a dog, and a man in a brown coat in the foregrou

Scenes of New York--Central Park (mural study, Madison Square Postal Station, New York City)

Kindred McLeary, 1937

Painting of a crowded Lower East Side street with tenements, a fruit cart, laundry lines, and people including children and a

Scenes of New York--Lower East Side (mural study, Madison Square Postal Station, New York City)

Kindred McLeary, 1937

Watercolor of a clown in a polka-dot costume balanced on an elephant's head, arms raised, before a striped circus tent.

Clown Elephants

Fugi Nakamizo, 1940

Watercolor of a park path with walkers and a lamppost, framed by tall city towers and trees under a pale sky.

Central Park Plaza

Fugi Nakamizo, 1940

Watercolor of a cottage fireplace with glowing embers and two andirons, framed by a dark chimney breast and pale mantel.

Untitled (Cottage Fireplace)

Ida Josephine Burgess

Hand-colored botanical drawing of purple-leaved cineraria with magenta daisy-like flowers and green serrated leaves on beige

Purple-leaved Cineraria, A Native of the Canary Isles

Frances Jauncey Ketchum

Ink and pink-tinted sketch of a seated nude woman seen from behind, arms raised and hands behind her head.

Seated Nude

Ink drawing of a standing monk in a long hooded robe, head raised, hands clasped at the waist, on tan paper.

Untitled (Study of a Standing Monk)

Ida Josephine Burgess, 1880

Ink line drawing of a standing female nude with one arm raised, signed Nadelman in the lower right corner.

Standing Female Nude

Elie Nadelman, 1900

Study for Disciple Kneeling at the Tomb

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Angular charcoal drawing of two female figures in a fragmented geometric interior setting.

Two Figures

Pencil sketch of a small wooden cabin with a chimney beside leafy trees and a dirt road in the foreground.

Early Home

Henry Farrer, 1900

Graphite and red chalk drawing of a seated nude woman with closed eyes holding a mandolin on a rocky base.

Nude Figure with Mandolin

Laurent-Honoré Marqueste, 1920

Chalk drawing of a turbaned bearded man drinking from a cup, with grapevines and a poem text block above.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Soul of the Cup

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a street before a gateway with robed figures, a donkey, minarets and a palm tree behind the walls.

Entrance to Bazaar

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Black and white ink drawing of a tree framing a distant town with church spires and a white fountain in a garden.

Untitled - H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Drawing of a bearded man and two women under grapevines beside a carved wine jug tomb, with verse text in the center.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Omar's Tomb

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a woman in evening dress beside a classical statue figure, on aged yellowed paper.

Lady in Evening Dress with Figure of Venus de Milo

William Page, 1870

Red chalk drawing of a woman and a man in a cap standing close together before a sketched tree.

Figure Study

Alfred Philippe Roll, 1910

Drawing of a nude woman seen from behind raising a wine cup, with a bending figure above and verses of the Rubáiyát beside he

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Cup of Love

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Grey ink and wash drawing of a standing nude woman seen from behind, hair in a bun, with a pale cloth at her side.

Standing Female Nude

Closed sketchbook with blue marbled cover and dark leather spine, photographed against a plain light background.

Sketchbook (Italian Travels)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown and white chalk drawing of a hooded old man and a nude winged woman beside a dead bird, with verse text in the center.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Sorry Scheme

Elihu Vedder, 1880