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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

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a patterned headwrap, hoop earrings and fur robe against a pale sky.

Lay-láw-she-kaw, Goes Up the River, an Aged Chief

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of flowering chestnut trees above a daisy-filled meadow with a path and distant fields under a cloudy sky.

Chestnut Trees in Bloom

William Henry Holmes, 1910

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

Loose painted landscape of rolling plains under a sky fading from blue to pink, with clouds along the horizon.

Landscape Background

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of bare trees silhouetted against a purple and orange twilight sky above dark rocky ground.

Edge of the Forest, Twilight

Charles H. Davis, 1890

Painting of cows grazing in a sunlit meadow beside a brook, beneath a large spreading tree.

Meadow Brook

Charles P. Gruppe, 1910

Painting of a river winding through prairie with distant bluffs, and three figures around a campfire on the grassy foreground

Prairie Bluffs at Sunrise, near the Mouth of the Yellowstone River

George Catlin, 1830

Loose watercolor of a field of white and pink blossoms beneath a pale blue sky, with thin bare trees.

Field of Blossoms

William Henry Holmes, 1920

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 flat-topped mesas rising above green rolling hills, with trees and a pale sky under soft clouds.

Square Hills, 1200 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a woman in a white cap on a grassy path beside a wheat field and large spreading trees under an overcast sky.

Brittany Landscape

H. Bolton Jones, 1870

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 a wide river curving through green plains toward distant hills, with small figures on a grassy knoll in the foreg

Mouth of the Platte River, 900 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Watercolor of bare winter trees on a snowy slope with rocks and a hazy golden sky.

Autumn Landscape

Louis Eilshemius, 1880

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

A Pool in the Forest

Benjamin Rutherford Fitz, 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

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 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

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 W. Beatty, 1900

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

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

Watercolor of a cucumber tree branch with a yellow-green closed bud and long green leaves on a pale background.

Cucumber Tree (Magnolia scuminata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1938

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

Pencil and wash drawing of a bearded man in a blue turban seated with clasped hands, gazing at the viewer.

Untitled (Hill Tribesman)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Watercolor of a rock willow branch with white fuzzy catkins, yellow stamens and green leaves on a cream background.

Rock Willow (Salix vestita)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

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

Big Horn, Tongue River

Thomas Moran, 1890