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Painting of a dramatic cloudy sky with sunlight breaking through, above dark rolling hills and trees.

Untitled (landscape, cloudy sky)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a golden autumn hillside with dark evergreen trees, orange shrubs, and a grey cloudy sky.

Autumn Fields

Edward Bruce, 1920

Painting of a wide river winding between green grassy bluffs, with a broken dead tree trunk in the foreground.

View on Lake St. Croix, Upper Mississippi

George Catlin, 1830

Loose oil landscape of two grazing cows in a grassy field beneath dark trees and a pale embankment, with distant hills.

Untitled (landscape with two cows)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of bare trees beside a still forest pool under a pale yellow evening sky.

A Pool in the Forest

Benjamin Rutherford Fitz, 1890

Painting of a winding river valley with a column of mounted riders and horses crossing shallow water under a cloudy sky.

View of the Canadian River, Dragoons Crossing

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of cows grazing under trees beside a calm river, with distant hills and a cloudy sky in warm earth tones.

Untitled (landscape with cows grazing near river)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Oil landscape of a river valley with grazing sheep and cattle, a farmhouse on a hillside, and hazy mountains under a cloudy s

Valley Pasture

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Painting of rolling green hills with three clustered trees under a pale, cloudy sky.

The Three Trees

W. L. Lathrop, 1930

Painting of cattle grazing in a flowery meadow beside large trees under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape with cattle grazing)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Watercolor of a green hill at sunset with small figures on the crest and children in the foreground under layered clouds.

On the Sunset Hill, 1926

William Henry Holmes, 1920

Painting of tepees on a prairie rise with grazing bison in the foreground under a cloudy, pale sky.

Sioux Village, Lake Calhoun, near Fort Snelling

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a stormy grey coastline with a bare tree, a red-roofed house, and two sailboats on calm water.

Landscape near Newport, R. I.

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870

Watercolor landscape of a dirt road through a meadow with wildflowers and dark trees under a cloudy sky.

Landscape Sketch

De Lancey Gill, 1930

Painting of a winding dirt road through green rolling hills under a cloudy sky, with small houses on the distant ridge.

Plymouth Hills

John William Beatty, 1900

Painting of two cows grazing on a path through a dark forest, with a standing figure near a sunlit clearing.

Untitled (cows on path in forest)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Oval landscape of a calm Swiss lake with a rocky cliff, a boat of figures, snowy mountains, and a village under clouds.

A Swiss Lake

Daniel Huntington, 1840

Watercolor of a sunlit forest path lined with trees and boulders, leading toward a bright clearing.

Untitled (Forest Scene)

Robert Bruce McDougall, died Long Beach, NY, 1900

Landscape painting of a small man on a path beside a grove of trees, with clouds and rolling hills in the background.

Untitled (man on path with trees in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of a classical landscape with an arched aqueduct, waterfall, stone tower, fishermen, and a rowboat on a river.

Classical Landscape

John Ritto Penniman, 1820

Painting of green river bluffs with two white wolves in the foreground and a winding river below a pale sky.

River Bluffs with White Wolves in the Foreground, Upper Missouri

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of cattle and sheep grazing near a river with a sailboat, beneath a large tree and cloudy sky.

Untitled (cattle near river with sailboat in distance)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of three nude women in a landscape with a blue lake, trees, and golden hills under a pale sky.

Nudes in Landscape

Arnold Friedman, 1940

Painting of a thatched cottage, cows by a river, and a distant windmill under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Windmill

E. Landseer Harris, 1950

Painting of an autumn landscape with a woman carrying wood along a path beneath golden trees and a bright hazy sky.

Untitled (landscape--woman carrying wood)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Loose watercolor of a stormy landscape with blue mountains, a dark tree in the foreground and green and ochre hills.

Untitled (Summer Landscape)

Ida Josephine Burgess

Pencil sketch of a geyser pool with rocky terraces, a river and distant hills and trees in Yellowstone.

Beryl Geyser on Gibbon River, Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Charcoal drawing of a dark landscape with trees on the left, a wooded treeline, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape

Auguste-Emmanuel Pointelin, 1930

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a dirt path winding up a grassy slope past trees, with a small red-roofed house at right.

Landscape Sketch

Walter Shirlaw, 1830

Pencil sketch of a distant mountain ridge over limestone blocks and a lone pine in the foreground.

Big Horn, Tongue River

Thomas Moran, 1890