New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Smithsonian American Art Museum

2,386 works

Featured

Filters

Color

Shape

Century

Ink and watercolor drawing of a burning steamship at sea, with survivors in lifeboats amid rough waves and an erupting cliff

Burning of the Steamship Austria

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Watercolor of a Bruges canal with a stone arched bridge, two boats, gabled houses with red roofs, and church spires.

On the Canal, Bruges

Cass Gilbert, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark hair and blue eyes, wearing a red coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Alexander Rose

Pierre Henri, 1780

Watercolor of wilted, ruffled tulips in a green glass vase with a sketched butterfly above and weathered boards behind.

Tulips

Andrey Avinoff, 1940

Watercolor of a whitewashed stone building with an arched doorway and two small figures in a grassy yard.

St. Augustine

Howard Russell Butler

Cubist still life with a fruit bowl, apples, a blue and white pitcher and a red patterned cloth in muted greens.

Still Life

Earl Horter, 1930

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, in an engraved gold frame.

Dr. Joseph Glover

Charles Fraser, 1820

Water Lily in Sunlight

Water Lily in Sunlight

John La Farge, 1880

Watercolor of dense green trees along a river bank, with blue water in the foreground and hills in the distance.

The Wye at Wilton Castle (Wales)

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor drawing of a stone courthouse with a clock tower, arched entrances, and a wrought iron fence, 1880.

Hampton County Courthouse

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, with the gold-framed reverse showing a clas

Member of the Schuyler Family

Alfred T. Agate, 1830

Watercolor of a sunlit stream flowing past autumn trees and a grassy meadow with golden foliage.

Autumn in the Meadow Edge

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Miniature portrait of a young girl with a gray cat, in an open red leather case with purple satin lining.

Beulah Appleton

Sarah Goodridge, 1840

Oval portrait miniature of a woman with dark hair, white lace collar, cameo pendant, and cream shawl in a gold frame.

Mrs. John Willis Ellis (Mary White)

John Henry Brown, 1840

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray hair in a blue coat and white cravat, against a gray background.

Augustus Fricke

Jean Pierre Henri Elouis, 1790

Watercolor of Utrecht Cathedral tower above red rooftops and bare winter trees.

Tower of the Cathedral of Utrecht, Holland

Cass Gilbert, 1890

Watercolor of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence with arched bridge spanning blue river and colorful buildings lining both banks.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Watercolor portrait of a standing man in a striped blanket robe and beaded moccasins beside a rock and trees.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

William Henry Holmes, 1880

Watercolor of a red barn behind a flowering garden and wooden fence, with trees and clouds under a blue sky.

Sharon Springs

Elizabeth Boott Duveneck, 1880

Old Church, Tours, France

Old Church, Tours, France

Cass Gilbert, 1880

Watercolor of fluted Doric temple columns and stone steps in warm light, with grass and a fallen block in the foreground.

(Temple)

Cass Gilbert, 1920

Watercolor of redstem saxifrage with pink-tinged white flowers on slender red stems above lobed green leaves.

Redstem Saxifrage (Saxifraga lyallii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a stem of yellow evening primrose flowers with green leaves and buds on a pale background.

Evening Primrose (Oenothera)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a yellow lupine plant with arching stems of yellow flowers and whorled green leaves on pale paper.

Yellow Lupine (Lupinis arboreus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a mountain laurel branch with pink-white flower clusters and dark green leaves on a tan background.

Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of a cholla cactus branch with yellow blossoms, a closed bud, and spiny green stems on a pale background.

Cholla Opuntia whipplei

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a Douglas fir branch with green needles and hanging brown cones on a pale background.

Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga mucronata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of yellow-green trumpet pitcher plants with hooded pitchers on tall stems against a pale background.

Trumpetleaf (Sarracenia flava)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Virginia springbeauty plant with white pink-veined flowers, buds, and long green leaves on a pale background.

Virginia Springbeauty (Claytonia virginica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Jane Stone

Jane Stone

Benjamin Trott, 1800