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Watercolor of a small clump of pygmy plants with slender stems, tiny white flowers and reddish-green leaves on dark soil.

Pygmy Androsace (Androsace subumbellata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered grey hair in a purple coat and white cravat, in a metal frame.

Le Duc de Liancourt

Charles Willson Peale, 1790

Watercolor of a wooden waterfront building with drying skins on its wall, canoes on the shore, and masts behind.

Drying Skins, Sitka

Theodore J. Richardson, 1910

Watercolor of a pine branch with green needles and two large dark purple cones against a cream background.

Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

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 botanical study of a willow sprig with green leaves and pink and yellow catkins on a cream background.

Rock Willow (Salix petrophila)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor study of a green caterpillar with pale markings and a red tip, on a narrow paper strip with a hexagonal border.

White Birch Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Watercolor of red columbine flowers with yellow centers, buds and green leaves on thin stems against a pale background.

Red Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1890

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

Ruins of Balbeck

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Portrait of Carolina Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1820

Watercolor of a pitcher plant with tubular green leaves and a nodding maroon and pink flower on pale paper.

Catesby Pitcherplant (Sarracenia catesaei)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two stems of yellow composite flowers with green basal leaves and brown roots on cream paper.

Montana Parnassia (Parnassia montanesis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of three stems of rose paintbrush flowers with pink bracts and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Rose Paintbrush (Castilleja pallida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of pink meadow fleabane flowers with yellow centers and green leaves on tall, hairy stems.

Meadow Fleabane (Erigeron speciosus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor botanical study of pale pink ghostpipe flowers and slender stems on a cream background.

Ghostpipe (Thalesia uniflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of cut leaf fleabane plant with slender stems and yellow-centered flower heads against a cream background.

Cut Leaf Fleabane (Erigeron compositus nudus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a dogwood branch with clusters of red berries and leaves shaded from green to russet on a pale background.

Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

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

Watercolor of a branching stem with tubular purple penstemon flowers, green leaves and buds on a pale background.

Purple Pentstemon (Pentstemon lyallii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a pink-flowered lambkill shrub with narrow green leaves on two branches against a pale background.

Lambkill (Kalmia angustifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a deerberry branch with clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers and elongated green leaves.

Deerberry (Polycodium stamineum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a dark coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

George Washington Rodgers

George Washington Rodgers, 1820

Watercolor of two sprigs of pink heather with green needle-like leaves and clusters of bell-shaped pink flowers on a pale bac

Pink Heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor botanical study of a partridgeberry sprig with small green leaves, white pink-tinged flowers and one brown berry.

Partridgeberry (Mitchella repena)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a white-flowered Northern Bedstraw stem with whorled green leaves on a cream background.

Northern Bedstraw (Galium boreale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a lodgepole pine branch with green yellow-tipped needles and clustered reddish-brown cones on a pale background

Lodgepole Pine (Pinus Contorta murrayana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of Canada wild ginger with heart-shaped green leaves and two dark maroon flowers on hairy stems.

Canada Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of blue beard-tongue stems with tubular blue and lavender flowers and green leaves on cream paper.

Blue Beard-Tongue (Pentstemon)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

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 an octagonal log block house with a shingled roof on a grassy hill, with evergreens and mountains behind.

Russian Block House, Alaska, 1900

Theodore J. Richardson, 1900

Watercolor of a California fuchsia stem with red tubular flowers, buds, and narrow green leaves on a beige background.

California Fuschia (Zauschneria californica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

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 of white Dutchman's breeches flowers with yellow tips on slender stems above delicate green fern-like leaves.

Dutchman's Breetches (Bikukulla cucullaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with curly brown hair, white cravat and dark coat, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials G. D.

Raphaelle Peale, 1800

Watercolor of slender cotton-grass stems with five fluffy white seed heads on a cream background.

Slender Cotton-Grass (Eriophorum chamissonis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor wall design with a paneled door, allegorical panel of a seated woman and kneeling worker titled Arbitration.

Arbitration

Louis Schaettle, 1910

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered grey hair, blue coat, yellow waistcoat and white cravat.

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Peale, 1780

Watercolor of purple Virginia spiderwort flowers and buds among long green leaves on a pale background.

Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two violet-blue butterwort flowers on tall stems rising from a green leaf rosette on a cream background.

Purple Butterwort (Pinguicula elatior)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor study of a green sphinx caterpillar camouflaged against leaves and a reddish branch.

Sphinx Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1920

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 pink fumeroot plant with red tubular flowers tipped in yellow and delicate divided green leaves.

Pink Fumeroot (Capnoides sempervirens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

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 blue and lavender phlox flowers on slender green stems with narrow leaves, against a pale background.

Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a witch hazel branch with spidery yellow flowers, small blossoms, brown seed capsules and bare twigs on pale pa

Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

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 botanical study of a nodding campion stem with three drooping seed capsules and narrow green leaves on pale paper.

Nodding Campion (Lychnis apetala)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a spiny cactus with a bright pink flower blooming from its top against a pale background.

Cucumber Cactus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

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

Watercolor botanical study of a broomrape plant with clustered yellow flowers and brown scaly stems on a cream background.

Broomrape (Orobanche fasciculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

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 of a Fringed Polygala sprig with magenta flowers and green leaves on thin stems, signed M.V.W. 1920.

Fringed Polygala (Polygala paucifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a pale strawberry plant with three white flowers, serrated leaves, red runners and exposed roots.

Pale Strawberry (Fragaria glauca)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

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 botanical study of a grayleaf fivefinger plant with yellow flowers, buds, and lobed leaves on a cream background.

Grayleaf Fivefinger (Potentilla glaucophylla)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a witch-hazel branch with clusters of spidery yellow flowers and dark twigs on a pale background.

Witch-Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a moss campion cushion with many small magenta flowers and buds among dense green foliage on pale paper.

Moss Campion (Silene acaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Northern hedysarum plant with pink pea-like flowers, pinnate leaves, and roots, on cream paper.

Northern Hedysarum (Hedysarum boreale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of two nodding onion stems with drooping clusters of pink flowers and long green leaves on a pale background.

Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of pink tubular pentstemon flowers and green leaves on a pale background, by Mary Vaux Walcott.

Menzies Pentstemon (Pentstemon menziesii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

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 of two tall larkspur stems with purple and pale lavender flowers above lobed green leaves.

Tall Larkspur (Delphinium elongatum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of gentian stems with purple buds and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Gentian (Gentiana macounii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930