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Painting of a pastoral valley with a rainbow over wooded hills, grazing cattle, two walking figures, and a calm river.

Landscape with Rainbow

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1859

Oil portrait of an elderly bald man with white beard and mustache in a dark suit, seated beside a red book and a framed lands

Dr. William H. Holmes

Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1930

Muted harbor with sailing ships at anchor, a tan quay with small figures in the foreground, and blue-green water under pale s

Valparaiso Harbor

James McNeill Whistler, 1866

Painting of a dusty adobe town plaza with a white church, ox cart, carriage, covered wagon, and riders under a cloudy sky.

Old Mesilla Plaza

Léon Trousset, 1885

Painting of a crowded city street with tenements, laundry lines, a fruit cart, and families gathered in the foreground.

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

Kindred McLeary, 1930

Watercolor of the Arch of Titus in Rome with grass and ruins in the foreground and the Colosseum seen through the arch.

Arch of Titus, Rome

Cass Gilbert, 1933

Painting of two women in a green meadow beneath a dense line of trees, one in a blue dress seated, one standing in a hat.

The Hermit Thrush

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Abstract landscape painting with angular houses, a garden path and hills in bold red, green, blue and yellow planes.

Abstract Landscape

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Watercolor of Battle Abbey's tall gabled stone facade with pointed windows, walking figures on a dirt path, and trees.

Battle Abbey

Cass Gilbert, 1931

Woman seated at a spinet from behind, in a warm room with floral wallpaper, a mirror, and a vase of yellow flowers.

The Spinet

Thomas Dewing, 1902

Painting of seated figures around a campfire and tipi beneath a tall granite cliff at dusk, with horses and trees.

Indians in Council, California

Albert Bierstadt, 1870

Painting of a man with a basket fishing by rushing rapids, surrounded by boulders and golden shrubs.

After Them

Walter Ufer, 1928

Painting of a dark cave opening framing calm water, jagged rock spires, a small boat and a glowing hazy sky.

The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge

Thomas Cole, 1829

Full-length portrait of a woman in a sequined blue gown on a stone terrace with a small dog at her feet.

Miss Anne Mills Archbold

Frederick MacMonnies, 1900

Painting of two seated men with dogs outside a rustic cabin, a woman and children in the doorway, cabbage and buckets nearby.

A Dog Swap

Richard Norris Brooke, 1881

Painting of Niagara Falls with two cataracts, forested banks, storm clouds, and small figures on the foreground rocks.

A General View of the Falls of Niagara

Alvan Fisher, 1820

Painting of Adam and Eve with a red serpent and apple tree, a swan, and a winged figure with a sword in a colorful landscape.

(Adam and Eve)

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of a hunter in a yellow coat with rifle and two dogs standing among fallen logs in a sunlit forest.

Hunter and Dogs

J. Alden Weir, 1912

Watercolor and pencil sketch of Siena cathedral's striped tower against blue sky, with a dome at lower left.

Cathedral Tower, Siena

Cass Gilbert, 1927

Two tattooed men with loincloths stand on a sandy beach holding a paddle and woven fan, with mountains behind them.

Marquesan Men

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Painting of a smiling woman in a doorway with arms crossed as a young man in green clothes leans on the wooden door.

Drawing on Door

Alois Binder, 1887

Watercolor of a French village with a shepherd leading sheep along a path toward stone houses and a church tower.

French Village

H. Anthony Dyer, 1901

Oil portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat, fringed buckskin jacket and red collar, with braided hair, against a warm backgr

Sitting Bull

Julian Scott, 1900

Painting of a riverside factory town with red smokestacks, yellow roofs, and blue water in bold angular shapes.

Evening Tones

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, 1911

Watercolor of a village of tiled-roof houses beside a green field, with two figures walking a winding path under a pale sky.

Kansas City, Kansas

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859

Painting of a uniformed officer standing beside a seated woman in a yellow headscarf at a table in a rustic arched room.

Officer with Peasant

Abstract painting on dark ground with glowing yellow disc, radiating lines, and concentric circles in ochre and yellow.

Idle Governor

Horatio C. Forjohn, 1940

Calm lake under cumulus clouds with shadowed mountains, a village shoreline, and small boats on the water.

Lago Maggiore

William Stanley Haseltine, 1867

Two women in summer dresses read a book together on a grassy dune, with a dog resting nearby under a cloudy sky.

On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty)

James Jebusa Shannon, 1910

Painting of a young woman in a black cloak walking against strong wind on a dirt path under a cloudy sky.

The Girl I Left Behind Me

Eastman Johnson, 1870