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Painting of a headless rider chasing a fleeing horseman on a white horse through a moonlit forest path.

The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane

John Quidor, 1858

Watercolor of a woman in a white dress and blue shawl seated beside a potted rosebush in a garden with a river.

Woman in a Garden

Sarah P. Wells, 1800

Painting of beached rowboats and a sailboat on a sandy shore, with a wooden pier, red shed and calm sea under a pale sky.

Beach Scene

William Glackens, 1925

Oil portrait of four men with red feathered headdresses, red face paint, and beaded jewelry against a dark background.

Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees

Charles Bird King, 1821

Watercolor landscape of rolling hills and fields with an inset map of Valley Forge and Valley Creek.

Valley Forge

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Folk painting of fishermen in rowboats, sailing ships, whales and birds over a dark, churning blue sea.

The Marblehead Fishermen 2015.56.3 1

John Orne Johnson Frost

Painting of a rocky hillside with a mine tunnel above a calm lake, a small white building and rowboat at the shore.

The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York

Homer Dodge Martin, 1862

Small child in red clothing stands on a yellow ground inside a dark arched opening, painted in loose thick brushstrokes.

Untitled - C. S. Price, 1940

C. S. Price, 1940

Painting of a steep dark rocky cliff with waves crashing below and two small figures on the clifftop under a grey sky.

High Cliff, Coast of Maine

Winslow Homer, 1894

Watercolor of a hazy river with a green grassy bank, trees, a small boat and figures, and a distant smoke plume.

View on the Potomac

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Painting of men dancing in a ring around carved posts, with embracing figures at the center and feathered headdresses.

Their Dances Which They Use at Their High Feasts

Spencer Nichols

Painting of granite cliffs and pine trees in Yosemite Valley, with a calm river reflecting the dark foliage.

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley

Albert Bierstadt, 1872

Oil painting of rocky California cliffs with surf breaking through a sunlit inlet, warm ochre rock and blue water.

California Cliffs by Paul Dougherty

Paul Dougherty, 1935

Half-circle oil sketch of arid mountains with snow peaks, red-ochre tones, and animals grazing by water.

Untitled (sketch for mural in Eastern Oregon)

C. S. Price, 1940

Painting of ruined classical columns in foreground overlooking a bay with boats and a mountain under a golden sky.

Pompeii

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1871

Night painting of a red and green aurora over dark hills, with a two-masted ship on icy water in the foreground.

Aurora Borealis

Frederic Edwin Church, 1865

Painted view of a palisaded village with arched dwellings around a central fire, with figures gathered in the open plaza.

The Town of Pomeiock

Spencer Nichols

Watercolor of two nude boys beside a white boat on a grassy riverbank under a pale sky.

Sand Burr

Thomas Anshutz, 1894

Painted valley with a calm river, rolling wooded hills, grazing sheep and cattle, and a warm cloudy sky.

Valley Pasture

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1857

Decorative mural study of ocean liners, a warship, and sailing boats before a stylized city skyline with airships overhead.

Shipping (mural study)

Griffith Baily Coale, 1920

Two women with a pitchfork and a sheep walk across a dusky hillside under a yellow sunset sky.

Bringing home the new born lamb

Elliott Daingerfield, 1890

Painting of a pale rocky cliff face behind a gnarled oak tree and green meadow under a cloudy sky.

Oaks and Rocks--San Luis Obispo

Edward Bruce, 1930

Triangular painting of green and brown mountains with an arched tunnel, railway tracks and a winding path under a pale sky.

Triangular Mountainscape with Tunnel

n.d Dana Smith, 1900

Painting of a wide river curving past grassy bluffs, with small figures on the edge and a distant village under a streaked sk

Distant View of the Mandan Village

George Catlin, 1832

Loose painting of slender autumn trees with yellow leaves above a green meadow and red shrubs.

Royal Oak

William Henry Holmes, 1932

Painting of seated figures holding red rattles in a ring around a campfire, with smoke rising into a pale sky.

Their Manner of Praying with Their Rattles about the Fire

Spencer Nichols, 1950

Painting of Black women in headwraps and aprons in a dim interior as an elderly white woman in black stands at right.

A Visit from the Old Mistress

Winslow Homer, 1876

Painting of a rocky mountain valley with pine trees, a winding road, and billowing clouds above a granite peak.

Road in the Cuyamacas

Charles Reiffel, 1933

Painting of a woman in an orange fur-trimmed cloak standing in a decorated interior with curtains, piano, and sofa.

Woman in Interior

n.d Dana Smith, 1900

Oil portrait of a family of four in a garden setting with trees, a stone wall, and a distant windmill and river.

The Wiley Family

William Williams, 1771