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Two women on a stone terrace in an Italian landscape, one sketching, with a black dog and distant hilltop town.

Two Women in an Italian Landscape

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1850

Woman and Child, Showing How the Heads of Children are Flattened

Oil portrait of a seated Zuni man in a blue shirt and patterned headband, with a stylized kachina figure behind him.

Zuni Man

Carl Moon, 1940

Pen and ink sketch of an abstract figure with curving forms rising from a bowl, drawn on a ring-bound notebook page.

Drawing - William Sommer

Oil portrait of a man with a red feathered headdress, fur robe, claw necklace and silver earrings against a pale sky.

Wah-ro-née-sah, The Surrounder, Chief of the Otoe Tribe

George Catlin, 1832

Woman with fishing nets and basket on her back holds a child's hand on a windy sand dune under a cloudy sky.

Fisher Girl of Picardy

Elizabeth Nourse, 1889

Fish roasting on a wooden rack above a log fire, with smoke rising and more fish hanging to the right.

The Broyling of Their Fish over the Flame of Fier

Spencer Nichols

Two women in long skirts raise their arms beneath a tree covered in white blossoms on a green lawn.

Blossoms

William Henry Holmes, 1927

Painting of a seated man in a white shirt reading a book beside a wooden door in a dim interior.

The Lord Is My Shepherd

Eastman Johnson, 1863

Painted full-length figure of a man with body paint, feathered headdress, and bow, standing against a pale background.

A Herowan or Great Lord of Virginia

Spencer Nichols

Seated man in black coat with white cravat and gold medal, hand resting on paper beside books and a quill pen.

Portrait of General Giles

Joseph Wright of Derby, 1785

Oil portrait of a woman in a white satin gown with lace, seated before a dark tree and cloudy sky.

Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry

John Wollaston the Younger, 1745

Full-length painting of a standing man with arms crossed, wearing beaded necklace and fringed skirt, against a pale backgroun

A Chiefe Herowan

Spencer Nichols

Painting of a woman in a red headscarf cradling a sleeping infant, with a pale sky and sea horizon behind her.

The Happy Mother

Blue-toned painting of a kneeling woman reaching toward moonlit water, with a pale standing figure behind her on a shore.

Moses in the Bullrushes

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1921

Painting of a stilted wooden platform with thatched roof, rows of wrapped bundles, a seated figure, and a campfire below.

The Tomb of Their Herowans of Chiefe Personages

Spencer Nichols

Stylized painting of a white bird, palm fronds, and a distant volcano with smoke over a turquoise sea and blue mountains.

Neapolitan Song

Joseph Stella, 1929

Full-length painting of a bearded man with a paddle beside a lake and mountains under a cloudy sky.

Australian Man

Antonio Zeno Shindler, 1893

Muted brown painting of a village with dome-roofed houses, a central fire, dancing figures inside a post circle, and trees.

The Town of Secota

Spencer Nichols

Watercolor of a half-timbered medieval house with a steep gable and pedestrians walking a cobbled street.

Old House in Rouen

Cass Gilbert, 1932

Loosely painted portrait of an older bearded man with glasses against a red-brown background, wearing a light jacket.

Self-Portrait

William de Leftwich Dodge, 1925

Painting of a tall ship with white sails spread at a wooden pier, reflected in calm green harbor water.

Drying Sails

Griffith Baily Coale, 1890

Painting of a woman in a white gown flanked by two children before a dark tree and teal sky.

My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1897

Painting of a woman in a grey dress holding a glass vase with a pink carnation by a sunlit window with flowers.

June

John White Alexander, 1911

Painting of an adult woman with facial markings and a gourd, beside a young girl in a beaded necklace holding a small doll.

A Chiefe Herowan's Wife of Pomeoc and Daughter

Spencer Nichols

Watercolor costume study of a bearded man in a red and blue turban, black embroidered jacket and red striped trousers.

Costume of Beder Khan Bey

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1814

Oil portrait of a young child in a red polka-dot dress and white lace collar, seated in a chair holding a cane.

Samuel Warren Holland, Aged Two Years

Milton W. Hopkins

Full-length painting of a standing man with patterned body markings, drawing a bow with an arrow, against a pale background.

A Chiefe of Florida

Spencer Nichols

Full-length portrait of a white-haired man in a black coat and red cloak beside a column, with a sunset landscape behind.

Andrew Jackson

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1836

Jack-o-pa (The Six)

Charles Bird King, 1827