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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

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

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

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

Ruins of Balbeck

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

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

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

Untitled (Mooring and Anchor)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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

Muted architectural rendering of the Lincoln Memorial's columns and steps, reflected in a long pool flanked by trees and hedg

(Lincoln Memorial)

Henry Bacon, 1933

Two horses in a wooded landscape, one grazing and one standing behind it, rendered in dark outlines and muted watercolor wash

Two Horses

Henry C. Roberts, 1933

Watercolor and ink drawing of two cows grazing in a stylized landscape with flowers and blue sky, by William Sommer.

Arrangement IV

William Sommer, 1933

Watercolor of a studio interior with a red stove, wooden staircase, easel, and framed flower picture beside clapboard walls.

Studio Interior

George Ault, 1933