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Painting of a barefoot girl holding a small bird in a meadow beside a white dog, with birds flying above.

Child with Birds and Dog

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of two horses and a child on a sandy beach at dusk, with figures gathering seaweed near the water.

The Seaweed Gatherers

Howard Russell Butler, 1880

Still life painting of a dark glass bottle beside a yellow and red apple on a green surface against a brown background.

Still Life--Apples and Bottle

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Oil self-portrait of a woman with tousled brown hair and blue eyes, hand resting on her cheek, white jabot at collar.

Self-Portrait with Jabot

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Painting of a standing man in feathered headdress and fringed fur leggings holding a pipe and a red-handled club.

Ka-bés-hunk, He Who Travels Everywhere, a Warrior

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of an ochre clay bluff above a green river with gravel shore, trees, and a small distant white building under cloudy

Cabane's Trading House, 930 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a powdered wig and green coat, with engraved reverse reading ancestor of Theodore Rooseve

Peter De Vaux

Henry Benbridge

Painting of two harnessed oxen and a young boy in a golden field beside a haystack.

Sketch for The Harvesters

Herman Hartwich, 1900

Watercolor of a calm lagoon with red-sailed boats, mooring posts, seagulls, and a distant city skyline under a pale sky.

The Lagoon, Venice

Cass Gilbert, 1890

Portrait of a man with red face paint, feather headdress, red blanket and beaded necklace, painted in 1830.

Chee-me-náh-na-quet, Great Cloud, son of Grizzly Bear

George Catlin, 1830

Watercolor of a red brick bell tower and domed church across a lagoon, with reflections in the water below.

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Cass Gilbert, 1890

Watercolor of a two-arched stone bridge over a rocky river, framed by trees, with a small figure on the bridge.

Old Bridge near Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor of medieval towers and crenellated walls of Carcassonne rising above a grassy slope under a pale sky.

Battlements of Carcassonne, France

Cass Gilbert, 1910

Watercolor of a man sleeping on his side with his head on his arm, wearing a white shirt on rumpled white sheets.

Portrait Study

Thomas La Farge, 1930

Etching of a nude male figure crouched beside a rough stone block, with fine crosshatched shading and a shadowed background.

The Beginning

Rodney Thomson, 1930

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark coat and yellow waistcoat, shown open in a red case.

Dr. John Binsse

Louis Francis de Paul Binsse, 1830

Painting of the white paddle steamer S.A. Stevens on a river, with flags flying and wooded hills behind.

Sarah A. Stevens

James Bard, 1870

Painting of a seated crowned woman with fruit and three nude children on a grassy lawn beside a classical column.

Plenty

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Framed 1850 portrait of a woman with dark curls in a blue velvet shawl and lace collar, seated by a flower vase; reverse show

Mrs. James Reid Lambdin (Mary O'Hara Cochran)

James Reid Lambdin, 1850

Painting of two boys in blue overalls seated on a wooden chair before a weathered fence, one in a straw hat.

Brothers

Malvin Gray Johnson, 1930

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat, in a gilt-edged wooden frame, with the back showing a label.

Ebenezer Martin

Henry Inman, 1830

Painting of an elderly man in a pale blanket before an adobe pueblo, with figures in a plaza and lavender mountains behind.

Antonio Concha, Old Man of Taos

Ira D. Gerald Cassidy, 1920

Watercolor of a cottage on a green island beside a wooden pier, with sailboats and tidal flats under a pale sky.

Untitled - Charles Russell Loomis, 1920

Charles Russell Loomis, 1920

Painting of a winding river past green rolling hills, a rock tower on a ridge, and two small figures on the bank.

The Tower, 1100 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Oil study of a white drapery strip stretched diagonally over a textured earth-toned ground, with a brown oval beneath.

Study for Drapery of "Pursuit of the Ideal"

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Miniature portrait of a woman with curled brown hair and a red shawl against a teal background, in a velvet case.

Self-Portrait

Sarah Goodridge, 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

Four painted dancers in fringed costumes and feathered headdresses perform a ceremonial dance on open grassland.

Four Dancers

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of golden fields rising toward dark trees and distant rolling hills under a hazy, grey-brown sky.

Lengthening Shadows

Kenyon Cox, 1880

Painting of a reclining sea nymph fountain statue beside a reflecting pool, with a palace and garden at sunset.

Parterre du Nord, Fontaine des Sirenes

Carroll Beckwith, 1910