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Seated man in a red blanket holding a feathered lance, wearing beaded moccasins and a red feather in his hair.

Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe

E. Irving Couse, 1909

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

Watercolor of a canyon with eroded rock spires and storm rain under a dark sky, with boulders in the foreground.

Shin-Au-Av-Tu-Weap (God Land), Cañon of the Colorado. Utah Ter

Thomas Moran, 1873

Painting of a Native American camp with many tipis, mounted riders and horses crossing the foreground, and a flat-topped mesa

Blackfoot Camp Scene

Edwin Willard Deming

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

Painting of a seated nude woman with long hair beneath blossoming branches, set against a dark green garden background.

The Golden Age

John La Farge, 1878

Painting of eroded hills and ravines under a pale sky, with blue mountains in the distance and a small figure in the foregrou

Volterra

Elihu Vedder, 1860

Painting of a marsh meadow at sunset with glowing red clouds, haystacks, a tree at left, and a small figure in the distance.

Jersey Meadows at Sunset

Martin Johnson Heade, 1860

Full-length painting of a nude woman with flowing red hair standing barefoot in a sunlit autumn meadow beneath trees.

Indian Summer

Kenyon Cox, 1887

Painting of a colonial leader in a tricorn hat pointing across a river valley as settlers with children and a ship gather.

Arrival of Colonel John Donaldson (design for mural)

Francis Luis Mora

Painting of a flock of white geese with spread wings flying diagonally against a dark green and black background.

Flock of Geese

Elizabeth Nourse, 1880

Painting of the Last Supper: Christ at center of a long table with twelve apostles in colorful robes and gold halos.

The Last Supper

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1915

Mural study of a western town street with a post office, saloon, groceries, blacksmith, two riders, and a woman.

Western Town (mural study, Helper, Utah Post Office)

Jenne Chavaz Magafan

Painting of a dirt road through a field toward autumn trees and a distant farmhouse under a pale sky.

Landscape

John Francis Murphy, 1880

Painting of the Last Supper with Christ at the center of a long table and twelve apostles around him against a blue backgroun

The Last Supper

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1920

Painting of dark blue Arctic water with white ice floes and icebergs beneath a grey sky, with a dark coastline on the horizon

Littleton Island

Frank Wilbert Stokes, 1893

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

Full-length portrait of a young woman in a black hat with pink flowers and dark coat, leaning on a carved pedestal.

My Daughter Gladys

Irving Ramsey Wiles, 1910

Crowded baroque banquet under classical arches, with reclining women, servants, armed men on a staircase, and smoke rising.

The Banquet of Cleopatra

Sebastiano Mazzoni, 1660

Painting of four figures walking under a golden sun, carrying fruit, flowers and a scythe, with a decorative gold border.

The Four Seasons

William Clarke Rice, 1920

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a white suit holding a cigarette, beside a gilded chair and straw hat.

John Gellatly

Irving Ramsey Wiles, 1930

Painting of pale sand dunes with green beach grass and shrubs under a cloudy sky, extending to a distant horizon.

Nantucket Sand Dune

C. Morgan McIlhenney, 1890

Sunlit ochre villa with a square tower, red roofs, palm tree and trees in front, under a pale blue sky.

Villa Malta, Rome

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1870

Painting of a seated nude woman with long auburn hair beneath flowering branches, with a pale drape over her lap.

The Golden Age

John La Farge, 1870

Painting of a winged figure supporting a flower-crowned woman beside a water edge under a crescent moon.

The Cup of Death

Elihu Vedder, 1910

Seated man in red blanket with feathered spear, beaded moccasins and feather headband against a pale ochre background.

Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe

Eanger Irving Couse, 1900

Brown ink drawing of three seated allegorical women, Justice with scales at center, a warrior with sword and shield left, and

Cartoon for mural of Minnesota State Capital, "Institute of Justice"

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Panoramic painting of Niagara Falls with white cascades, a turbulent river, evergreen trees and a pink sky.

Niagara Falls

George Catlin, 1820

Painting of a sunset landscape with pink clouds, dark hills, two cows on a ridge, and a lone tree at right.

Romantic Landscape

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Full-length portrait of a young woman in a pink gown holding a translucent fan, standing before a paneled door and yellow wal

Louise Howland King (Mrs. Kenyon Cox)

Kenyon Cox, 1890