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Half-length portrait of a man in a black coat and white cravat holding a rolled paper against a dark background.

Gentleman of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1820

Painting of a sunlit rocky headland with sailing boats and rowboats in calm water under a clearing storm sky.

Clearing Storm at Gibraltar

Samuel Colman, 1850

Half-length portrait of a woman in a lace cap, dark green dress, and lace collar, hands folded in her lap.

Lady of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1820

Loose painting of horses and a man in a dark stable, with light from a window and an open doorway.

Stable at Cuenca

John Singer Sargent, 1900

Painting of a young woman in a pink skirt beside a brown and white cow among flowering shrubs in sunlight.

La Vachère

Theodore Robinson, 1880

Painting of a green river valley with rows of tepees, a fort beside the river, figures on a hill, and streaked clouds above.

Fort Union, Mouth of the Yellowstone River, 2000 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Landscape painting of a calm river with trees, a rowboat with two figures, a canvas shelter, and a distant steamship.

Landscape with Campsite

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1820

Painting of a single white magnolia blossom with green leaves against a dark background.

Magnolia

Charles Walter Stetson, 1890

Painting of a rocky cliff with trees beside dark water, a small sailboat, and a stormy sky with breaking light.

Lake Scene

Edward L. Custer, 1870

Hazy purple-toned painting of snowy mountain peaks rising above a calm lake and green forested shoreline.

Alaskan Coast Range

Albert Bierstadt, 1880

Painting of Lake Maggiore with mountains, drifting boats, a village shore and a cloud-filled blue sky.

Lago Maggiore

William Stanley Haseltine, 1860

Painting of two blue jays with spread wings over bright snow, with bare branches in front and a leafless wooded edge behind.

Blue Jays in Winter, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

The Victorian Chair

Childe Hassam, 1900

Painting of a blue vase of white calla lilies, anemones and delphiniums on a sill, with a hillside village view beyond.

Bouquet in Window

Paul Rohland, 1933

Painting of a young woman in a dark cloak walking against strong wind on a dirt road under a stormy sky.

The Girl I Left Behind Me

Eastman Johnson, 1861

Oil painting of a Confederate soldier raising a white flag in a forest clearing, with a seated woman and a standing man besid

Surrender of a Confederate Soldier

Julian Scott, 1861

Painting of mouflon sheep in a wire-fenced pen beside a log shelter, with eucalyptus trees overhead.

Moufflon--Bobtailed Sheep

Josephine Joy, 1933

Abstract painting in black and olive with glowing yellow arcs, circles, and a bright orb near the center.

Idle Governor

Horatio C. Forjohn, 1933

Painting of a shirtless miner in a dark tunnel operating a pneumatic drill against a rough rock wall.

Gold Is Where You Find It

Tyrone Comfort, 1933

Painting of a potted cineraria with violet-edged white flowers on a lace doily before a window with blue curtains.

Cineraria

Josephine L. Reichmann, 1933

Painting of mounted officers reviewing lines of infantry with flags and a cannon on a caisson under a hazy sunset sky.

Review of Rhode Island and Maine Troops

James Walker, 1861

Standing officer in dark uniform beside a large cannon and draped American flag, painted in 1861.

The First Gun at Fort Sumter (Major Robert Anderson)

Alban Jasper Conant, 1861

Painting of a harbor with a suspension bridge, converging cables, dark blue water and a stormy sky in angular modernist style

Metropolitan Port

Joseph Stella, 1933

Painting of a seated woman in a red gown in an ornate room, with a prisoner behind bars at left and a figure with a candle at

Prisoner's Plea

Josephine Joy, 1933

Painting of a coal mine on a hillside with smokestacks, a steam locomotive, and red freight cars in muted purples.

At Madrid Coal Mine, New Mexico

Carl Redin, 1933

Portrait of a woman in a red silk gown with white lace and satin, holding a blue and white vase with a tulip against a dark b

Mrs. George Watson

John Singleton Copley, 1700

Painting of peacocks on a railing, in a tree, and displaying on a lawn beneath a weeping willow with a green bench.

Trysting at Evening

Josephine Joy, 1933

Painting of a green aloe rosette with four tall orange and yellow flower spikes against a windswept desert landscape and blue

Aloes

Josephine Joy, 1933

Painting of white herons nesting in a bare tree with wooden platforms beside a small pool and rocky shore.

Waterbirds Nesting

Josephine Joy, 1933

Painting of a brown mare and a golden foal nuzzling on a rose-colored hillside with blue hills and clouds behind.

Filly and Colt

Frank Stamato, 1933