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Two horseback riders roping a longhorn bull in a landscape with mountains and a grazing herd.

Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody)

William Pollock, 1900

Painting of a reclining winged angel gazing upward on a stone pedestal against a black background.

Untitled (Angel)

Annie Cauley, 1870

Classical landscape with a river, dancing figures, a lyre player, a ruined temple, and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Apollo and the Seasons (Classical Landscape)

Welsh Richard Wilson, 1770

Loose impressionist painting of a wild coastal landscape with dunes, scrub and a pale stretch of water under a pink and grey

Wild Coast, Newport

Homer Dodge Martin, 1880

Still life painting of a glass of wine with grapes, peach, plum, and hazelnuts on a white marble ledge.

Still Life with Fruit and Champagne

Helen Searle, 1860

Painting of a war-damaged street with soldiers, civilians, rubble, and a wounded man supported by companions.

Episode of the Siege of Lille, 1792

Georges Gaston Theodore Melingue, 1890

Painting of a calm lake with mountains under a golden sky, dark trees on the right shore, and ducks in the reeds.

Upper Ausable Lake

Homer Dodge Martin, 1860

Painting of oxen pulling a loaded cart through a golden harvest field beside a river under a pale, swirling sky.

Harvest

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1910

Painted mural study of a woman and child at a homestead and two men building a barbed wire fence on the prairie.

The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences (Mural Study for Interior Building, General Land Office, Was…

John Steuart Curry, 1940

Loose blue-toned painting of two robed figures on a rooftop beside a dark dome, with a pale horizon behind them.

Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Painting of a dark sailboat on rough night sea under a glowing moon with streaked clouds.

Moonlight

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1880

Painting of a hillside with tall trees, autumn foliage, and a pale low sun over a greenish sky.

Hillside Landscape

Edward S. Siebert, 1900

Hazy blue painting of a large arched building facade with two dark figures on horseback in the lower right corner.

Palace of Justice, Tangier

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Snowy frontier shooting match with rifle-armed men, onlookers, a woman in a yellow cloak, and evergreens against hills.

Scenes from the Pioneers by Cooper, Deerslayer at the Shooting Match

William Walcutt, 1850

Painting of a speaker in a red coat addressing a seated crowd of Native American men beneath large trees, 1860.

The Trial of Red Jacket

John Mix Stanley, 1860

Loose painted study of robed figures, one kneeling in the foreground, against a yellow wall.

Study, Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1900

Painting of two women baking bread at a domed adobe oven in a sunlit courtyard beneath hanging red chilies.

Women Baking Bread

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of a pink roseate spoonbill wading among green marsh grasses under a pink sky, by Abbott Handerson Thayer.

Roseate Spoonbill, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Loose oil painting of a pale country road curving through an ochre field toward dark green trees under a grey sky.

Country Road in France

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Haloed figure in red robe walks ahead of a group of followers along a stone wall path, head bowed.

Going Down to Gethsemane

Furth Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, 1890

Oil landscape of a calm river through green marshland with trees and a cloudy sky, by Edward Gay, 1900.

The River, Sound Beach, Connecticut

Edward Gay, 1900

Large 1860 painting of a formal group in period dress gathered on a lawn near a brick gateway and white obelisks under trees.

Visit of the Prince of Wales, President Buchanan, and Dignitaries to the Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, October…

Thomas P. Rossiter, 1860

Painting of sheep grazing in a sunlit meadow under large shade trees, with a haystack in the distance.

Noon in the Orchard

Worthington Whittredge, 1900

Painting of a young man in hat and vest seated on rocks beside a stream, with a rough wooded landscape behind him.

The Young Mechanic

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1830

Robed figures gather on a dusty path beneath a large gnarled tree, painted in muted teal and ochre tones.

He Healed the Sick

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Painting of cows grazing on a green hillside beneath a large twisted tree, with a cottage and cloudy sky behind.

Pastoral Study

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1890

Painting of a park with a walking woman, seated figure, bare tree, pond and obelisk beside terracotta paths and green trees.

In the Luxembourg Gardens

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Abstract painting with black curving lines, a striped sphere in yellow and red, and cream panels on dark teal.

Untitled - Rupert D. Turnbull, 1930

Rupert D. Turnbull, 1930

Four-panel folding screen with abstract geometric figures painted in bold blues, greens, reds, and yellows on gray frames.

Spirit of Christmas

Carl Newman, 1920

Painting of the Nativity with Mary, Joseph and the infant Christ, and three Magi bringing gifts under a night sky.

The Magi

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1910