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Painting of Sierra Nevada peaks, a waterfall and elk by a lake under dramatic sunlit clouds.

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt, 1868

Painting of a young woman in a white blouse arranging her dark hair against a dark green leafy background.

Girl Arranging Her Hair

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1910

Painting of a draped woman holding a glass sphere while a nude child reaches up beside a balustrade at dusk.

Illusions

Henry Brown Fuller, 1901

Painting of slender birch trees framing a blue lake and distant shoreline under a pale sky.

A Family of Birches

Willard Metcalf, 1907

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair in a black coat and white high-collared shirt against a brown background.

Portrait of John Woodruff Sims

John Woodruff Sims, 1810

Painting of two sailing boats on a calm sea at sunset, with a lighthouse and distant boats on the horizon under a pink sky.

Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine

Willem Frederik de Haas, 1874

Interior genre scene: a man shelling corn, a woman by the hearth, and a gentleman reading a map of lots.

The Speculator

Francis William Edmonds, 1852

Painting of a haloed bearded man in pink robe and green cloak gesturing, with robed figures and a hilly landscape behind.

Christ Addressing the People

Bonifazio di Pitati, 1400

Painting of a nude woman with long red hair seated at an ornate gold and cream dressing table with a mirror.

Nude Seated at Her Dressing Table

Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1909

Painted portrait of a woman in a black dress and gold bead necklace seated beside a window with a red curtain.

Woman with Gold Necklace

Prior-Hamblen School, 1850

Painting of women in shawls and two girls standing before a sunlit arched doorway with decorated columns.

Femmes pres des Escaliers no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Seated woman in a flowered gown with upswept hair, resting arms on a wooden chair against a muted background.

A Flowered Gown

Thomas Anshutz, 1906

Oil painting of a reclining nude woman in white stockings on a draped cloth, with loose sketchy background strokes.

Reclining Nude

Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1909

Painting of sunlit jagged mountain peaks above clouds and dark pine trees under a teal sky.

Switzerland--Near Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Painting of a deep rocky gorge with a robed shepherd and sheep on a ledge at lower right, under a pale hazy sky.

The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Painted wooden panel of Saint Anthony in a brown habit holding the Christ Child, both with halos, on a worn gold ground.

St. Anthony with the Christ Child

Arroyo Hondo Painter, 1825

Oil portrait of a man in feathered headdress, red beaded sash and dark coat, with a river landscape behind him.

Portrait of Ossahinta, Chief of the Onondaga Nation

Sanford Thayer, 1840

Two nude women stand by a stone pool beneath tall dark cypress trees, with a peacock and distant mountains in the background.

After the Bath

Charles Walter Stetson, 1910

Painting of a crumbling round tower on a plain with ruins, a seated figure, a goat, and mountains under a hazy sky.

Torre di Schiavi

Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, 1865

Painting of a surreal mountain landscape with a soaring eagle, red peaks, pale rock spires, a lake, and two reclining figures

Nirwana

Max Reyher, 1920

Painting of a woman with chin on hand and an older bearded man beside a fruit bowl before blue drapery.

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis with Still Life

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859

Studio interior with two children before a blank landscape canvas and a painter working at an easel on the right.

Interior with Portraits

Thomas Le Clear, 1865

Painting of a city waterfront at sunset with masted ships, billowing clouds, brick buildings and small figures on the street.

Cumulus Clouds, East River

Robert Henri, 1900

Elderly bearded man with a skull and quill, gazing up at a winged angel in a dark, dramatic landscape.

St. Jerome

William Merritt Chase, 1872

Seated woman in green dress, white lace bonnet and shawl, beside a round table and a river landscape painting.

Mrs. Richard Alsop

Ralph Earl, 1792

Half-length portrait of a young woman in a white satin gown with blue sleeves and a blossom in her hair, c. 1760.

Polly Ouldfield of Winyah

Jeremiah Theus, 1760

Painted landscape with a stone castle on a hill, two deer, a kneeling archer, and a winding river under a pale sky.

Landscape with Castles and Deer

M. A. Hall, 1875

Painted portrait of a man in a cream suit seated on a wooden chair, holding an orange cat, beside a bright window.

Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker)

Cecilia Beaux, 1898

Oil painting of a laurel-crowned young man with paper, a winged cupid, and a draped woman with a staff in a landscape.

Musa Regina

Henry O. Walker, 1900

Painting of a glowing butte and red cliffs beneath a dramatic orange sunset sky, with trees and a rocky river in the foregrou

Sunset Cloud, Green River, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1917