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Painting of riders on horseback near a green hill with a ring of bison skulls under an orange sunset sky.

Butte de Mort, Sioux Burial Ground, Upper Missouri

George Catlin, 1830

Study for a lunette mural with a winged figure, a cherub, seated and standing draped women, and a classical garden under blue

Study for mural, Union Trust Company Building, "The Sources of Wealth"

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Painting of a man in a hat walking with two brown oxen across a green field under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (man with two oxen)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1860

Painting of a man in a straw hat reclining on grass beside a stream under willow trees, with a distant red-roofed building.

Man Reclining beside a Stream

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, 1910

Painting of a large red barn with a dark roof on rolling golden hills under a cloudy sky, with a road in the foreground.

Bluemont Farm

Edward Bruce, 1930

Dim landscape with a shepherd and flock of sheep on a path below wind-bent trees under a heavy cloudy sky.

Untitled (shepherd with sheep)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870

Painting of a bright red lobster outlined in black on a solid black background, with initials and date in the lower right.

(Lobster on Black Background)

Marsden Hartley, 1940

Painting of Mandan men playing a ring and pole game on a plain, with spectators in feathered headdresses watching.

Tchung-kee, a Mandan Game Played with a Ring and Pole

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a grassy coastal plain with rocks and trees sloping toward a blue ocean under a cloudy sky.

Near the Ocean

Robert Swain Gifford, 1870

Painting of a woman in a headscarf resting her hand on a dark cow in a grassy meadow under a golden sky.

Untitled (woman walking with cow)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1860

Panoramic painting of Niagara Falls with white cascades, a turbulent river, evergreen trees and a pink sky.

Niagara Falls

George Catlin, 1820

Painting of waves breaking on rocks under a golden sky, with gulls flying above a cliff and a distant buoy on the sea.

Rocky Seashore

Louis Eilshemius, 1940

Painting of a dark field under a turbulent blue-gray sky with a bright break of light among clouds.

After the Shower

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of feathered dancers with spears before red tipis, a seated drummer at right and a white dog in the foreground.

Dance of the Chiefs, Mouth of the Teton River

George Catlin, 1830

Oil painting of a sunlit sand dune under blue sky, with pines, shrubs and dry grass in the foreground.

Cape Cod, Sand Dune

Herman Hartwich, 1890

Painting of a dirt path through a grassy meadow beside dark trees, with rolling hills and a cloudy sky beyond.

Untitled (landscape with road near stream and trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of two seated men talking under a rustic porch while a standing man and geese and chickens fill the farmyard.

Friendly Neighbors

Alfred Cornelius Howland, 1900

Painting of a rider in red chasing a bison herd across golden grassland under a cloudy sky with trees at right.

Caddo Indians Chasing Buffalo, Cross Timbers, Texas

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of a standing nude woman with dark hair in an unfinished brown background, by Thomas Eakins, 1900.

William Rush's Model

Thomas Eakins, 1900

Woman with chin on hand beside a vase of yellow roses in a sunlit interior, painted in loose, feathery brushstrokes.

Maréchal Niel Roses

Childe Hassam, 1910

Painting of cattle herded across a grassy field, with a man on horseback and a woman on foot under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (man on horseback, woman on foot driving cattle)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of red sandstone bluffs above green grassland with bison grazing and small figures in the foreground.

View in the Grand Detour, 1900 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Loose oil landscape of a golden field and dark trees under a pale sky, with a diagonal path crossing the foreground.

The Field

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Painting of large trees shading cattle in a grassy field, with a fence and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Landscape

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a mounted rider with a lance chasing a bison herd across a green grassland with hills in the distance.

An Osage Indian Lancing a Buffalo

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of a winged angel with brown hair holding white Easter lilies, gazing upward against a glowing background.

Easter Lilies

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Painting of a glowing sunset over a still pond with dark trees on both sides and a bird skimming the water.

Sunset

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of several men in buffalo masks and fur leggings performing a group dance, holding spears and a shield.

Buffalo Dance, Mandan

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a stone arched bridge over a green river with moored rowboats and sunlit ochre buildings under a hazy sky.

Ponte Santa Trinità

Childe Hassam, 1890

Painting of harvested corn shocks and pumpkins in a field with rolling hills, trees, and a blue sky.

September

William A. Coffin, 1900

Painting of oxen pulling a haycart through a grassy field beside large trees under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape with oxen and haycart crossing bridge)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a winding river past eroded ochre bluffs and mesas, with a lone figure on a grassy ridge in the foreground.

Big Bend on the Upper Missouri, 1900 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of women and a child at a stone fountain with a jug, an Italian town and hills under a warm sunset sky.

Italian Scene

William Tolman Carlton, 1860

Two women in long dresses in a misty summer meadow, one casting a fishing line toward a pond beside trees.

Summer

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Painting of mounted warriors in combat on a grassy plain under a dramatic stormy sky, with evergreen trees on the hills.

Battle Between Sioux and Sac and Fox

George Catlin, 1840

Dim interior with a woman carrying a tray past seated diners and a kneeling servant, painted in loose brown tones.

Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Impressionist landscape of birch trees in autumn gold above a valley road and small houses, with hills and clouds behind.

Beeches

Ernest Lawson, 1930

Painting of seated men around a central fire in a lodge lit from a roof opening, with skulls and hanging shields.

Interior View of the Medicine Lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a sunset landscape with pink clouds, dark hills, two cows on a ridge, and a lone tree at right.

Romantic Landscape

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Loose, textured painting of a street lined with bare and autumn-colored trees, a pale house, and a dark stone wall.

View of Melrose Street from the Spiers' Porch

Walt Kuhn, 1910

Painting of Mandan men seated in a council circle on grassland, with shields, feathered headdresses and rolling hills behind.

Foot War Party in Council, Mandan

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a reclining nude and a standing figure on a shore at sunset, with cliffs, a small boat, and an orange sky.

A Greater Morning

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1900

Loose brushwork painting of a woodland clearing with white wild parsley flowers, violet blooms, and slender bare trees.

Wild Parsley

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1900

Mounted hunters with bows and lances chase a bison herd across green rolling grassland under a pale sky.

Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a dirt path past rocks and trees, with a lake and billowing clouds under a blue sky.

Landscape (trees and rocks by lake)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of snow-capped mountains, fishermen in a rowboat, a sailing ship, and a dark rocky arch under a glowing sunset sky.

Landscape

Thomas Chambers, 1820

Painting of a green grassy slope with distant bluffs on the left under a soft, cloudy, tan-toned sky.

Nishnabottana Bluffs, Upper Missouri

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of crashing white surf against dark rocks, with a distant shoreline and a heavy grey stormy sky above.

Newport

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Dark painted barn interior with a sunlit window, a wooden bucket, and rough timber beams and planks.

Interior

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, 1910

Painting of domed earth lodges on a high riverbank, with people swimming, running and paddling a canoe on the river.

Hidatsa Village, Earth-covered Lodges, on the Knife River, 1810 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Small painting of a sailboat on calm water under a glowing orange and gold sunset sky above a rocky shore.

Boat on Sea

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a foaming torrent beside a wooden watermill under a dark stormy sky with mountains behind.

Mill on a Torrent

Hermann Herzog, 1870

Painting of a crowded Choctaw ball game on grassland, with teepees, spectators, and rolling green hills under a blue sky.

Ball-play of the Choctaw--Ball Up

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of a man on a white horse with a woman and dog on a forest path under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (man on horse with woman and dog)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of white surf breaking over dark rocks along a rugged coastline under a pale lavender sky.

Clearing after September Gale--Maine Coast

Howard Russell Butler, 1920

Painting of painted men in feathered headdresses performing a energetic group dance with spears and bows on pale ground.

Discovery Dance, Sac and Fox

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a cluster of dark trees in a meadow with grazing cattle under a cloudy sky.

Tree Landscape

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870

Painting of a blond boy lying on grass reaching for a marble, with ivy and a wooden fence behind him.

Boy Playing Marbles

David Gilmour Blythe, 1850

Oil sketch of goats: a standing young kid, a horned adult goat eating, two dark swallows, on a brown ground.

Goats

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, 1910

Dark painting of a forest with tall trees, a fallen log in the foreground, and a small house at right under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (forest scene, fallen tree in foreground and house in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870

Night landscape with a moonlit river, dark trees, a teepee camp with horses, and a lone figure by the water.

Moonlight, Indian Encampment

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1880

Still life painting of grapes, watermelon, peaches, plums and pineapple arranged on stone ledges against a dark background.

Untitled - n.d Everhart Kuhn, 1820

n.d Everhart Kuhn, 1820

Painting of painted dancers racing across a plain before crowds on domed earth lodges, with four tall feathered poles at left

The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a rocky bay with a wooded cliff under an overcast sky, dark boulders in the foreground.

Rocks at Newport

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Hazy seascape with a small sailboat on calm water near a rocky headland under a pale blue sky.

Pale Blue Landscape

Louis Eilshemius, 1940

Loose brushwork painting of tall pines, a sunlit shore, reflective water and a pink building under a pale sky.

In Southern France

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Painting of a riverbank with tall trees, a dirt path, grass, a small boat on calm water, and hills under clouds.

Untitled (landscape, trees near river)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of mounted riders galloping across golden grassland ahead of a large black smoke cloud and fire along the horizon.

Prairie Meadows Burning

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a castle on a wooded hill above a river, with a small sailboat and figures on the shore at sunset.

Scotch Highlands

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1840

Painting of a dirt road leading into a dark wooded hillside beneath a cloudy sky with distant mountains.

The Road to the Valley

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a hazy river valley seen from a hillside with autumn trees, a winding river, and distant mountains under a pale s

Kanawha River Valley

Samuel Colman, 1880

Painting of a rocky coastal path with driftwood, a walking figure, grazing cattle, and hills under a pale sky.

Lighthouse Beach, Annisquam

H. Bolton Jones, 1880

Painting of two men pushing a white rowboat on a grassy bank while two women with baskets stand nearby under a cloudy sky.

People Near Boat

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a bison herd on a grassy plain at sunset, with hunters with rifles stalking near trees at left.

Catlin and Party Stalking Buffalo, Upper Missouri

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of a dusky lake with willow trees on the left, a wooden fence in the foreground, and hills in the distance.

Landscape with Lake

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1860

Painting of a dodo with macaws, a duck, frog and lizard in a dark, stormy landscape with grasses.

The Dodo and Given

Henrik Gronvold, 1900

Angular painting of a hillside village with dark-roofed houses, rolling green and ochre hills, and a stormy sky.

Quebec

Preston Dickinson, 1920

Small painting of a white sailboat on a river with wooded mountains, trees on the right bank, and cloudy sky.

Untitled (sailboat in river)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870

Sunset over a hazy valley with dark windswept trees on a rocky slope and mountain ridges at right.

From the Shawangunk Mountains

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1820

Painting of a dark still lake under a stormy sunset sky, with a tall pine tree on the right and a mountain beyond.

Catskill Creek

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1850

Painting of a red fox and a hawk contesting a dead grouse in a grassy clearing beneath a wooded hillside.

Disputed Game

Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1850

Painting of a woman in a green dress beside a blue vase, with peacock feathers and a patterned wall behind her.

Woman and Peacock

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Painting of four cows wading in a pond beneath dark trees, with a stormy sky and open fields beyond.

Untitled (Four Cows Wading in Pond)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of heavy ocean waves crashing with white foam over dark rocks under a pale overcast sky.

Heavy Sea

Paul Dougherty, 1910

Painting of a river valley with cattle wading at the shore, a seated figure on a boulder, and mountains under a hazy sky.

Hudson River at Cold Spring

Johann Hermann Carmiencke, 1860

Painting of a dusky hillside with two cows on the crest and a figure in a red shawl under a bright, cloudy sky.

Untitled (cows descending hillside)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Still life painting of grapes, peaches, oysters, strawberries and a champagne flute on a marble table against a dark backgrou

Still Life with Fruit, Oysters, and Wine

n.d Everhart Kuhn, 1860

Painting of a shaded garden path with a draped statue on a pedestal, a balustrade, and a distant tower under a hazy sky.

Garden of the Tuileries, Paris

Minerva J. Chapman, 1940

Dusky landscape painting with a pale sun over a hazy sky, dark trees on the left, and a dirt road leading to hills.

The Close of Day

Charles Melville Dewey, 1930

Painting of a sunset over flat marshland with a dark rowboat in the foreground and a distant town silhouetted on the horizon.

Sunset Scene

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of a Mandan village cemetery: a circle of skulls, feathered poles and bison skulls on a green plain before earthlodg

Back View of Mandan Village, Showing the Cemetery

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of two boats pulled up on a sandy beach beside a red shed, pier and calm sea under a pale sky.

Beach Scene

William Glackens, 1920

Painting of a herdsman with a team of oxen in a green pastoral landscape with trees and hills under a cloudy sky.

Herdsmen with Cows

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1860

Painting of a crowd of feathered men dancing on open grassland, raising shields, lances, and tomahawks under a pale sky.

Scalp Dance, Mouth of the Teton River

George Catlin, 1830

Oil painting of rocky outcrops, pine trees and a valley with distant mountains under a pale sky.

Western Landscape

John Frederick Kensett, 1870

Small painting of dark hills and a rock beside a stream under a warm, cloudy sky at dusk.

Untitled (mountainous landscape with rock and stream in foreground)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820