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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

Painting of autumn trees and rocks beside a calm stream under a cloudy sky, with distant figures across the water.

Trees along Stream in Fall

William Trost Richards, 1860

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

Royal Oak

William Henry Holmes, 1932

Muted night landscape with a large spreading oak, a pale moon, and two cloaked figures walking on the plain.

Abraham's Oak

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1905

Painting of a large gnarled oak tree in a dense forest, with two small figures near the trunk and a pond in the foreground.

Oak Tree

Henry Ward Ranger, 1890

Oil painting of a tropical forest at sunset with a thatched house, a rider on a white horse, and distant mountains.

Forest and Native House

Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a snowy hillside with a lit farmhouse, bare trees and dark evergreens under a pale blue sky.

Shimmering Tree Shadows

Gardner Symons, 1930

Painting of a yellow church with a red roof and cross beside a tall dark cedar tree and a yellow path.

Church with Cedar Tree on Left

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of a blue-branched tree beside a white house with a red roof and a colorful garden.

Blue Trees

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of a male wood duck with green head and white neck stripe floating among lily pads on dark water.

Male Wood Duck in a Forest Pool, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Impressionist painting of a spring hillside with budding trees, a rocky slope, a farmer in a field, and the sea beyond.

The Budding Oak

Willard L. Metcalf, 1910

Painting of large yellow trees before colorful buildings with chimneys, red shrubs and blue sky, in bold outlined shapes.

Trees

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Sunset landscape with a thatched house, palm trees, travelers on a dirt road, and distant mountains.

Forest and Native House

Javanese Raden Saleh, 1860

Muted blue-gray night landscape with a large gnarled oak, a pale full moon, and two cloaked figures walking across a plain.

Abraham's Oak

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1900

Painting of dark trees above a meadow with two grazing cows, under a cloudy sky with hills and water in the distance.

Untitled (landscape with trees and two cows in meadow)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a blonde woman and a child seated beside a white doe in a shaded forest by a stream.

St. Genevieve of Brabant in the Forest

George Frederick Bensell, 1860

Painting of a shadowed forest with tall trees arching over a stream, autumn foliage and a pale sky above.

Forest Interior with Stream

John Frederick Kensett, 1860

Painting of a wooded landscape with cows wading in a stream beside a wooden bridge, under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (forest scene with bridge, cows in stream in foreground)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a nude woman with a dark headband standing in a loose, dense forest of ochre and blue brushwork.

Nude in Forest

Louis Eilshemius, 1910

Painting of two tree trunks with exposed roots and a green canopy, with shrubs and a stream in the background.

Trees beside a Stream

Eliphalet Fraser Andrews, 1910

Painting of cows grazing near a pond, with a farmhouse, a row of trees, and a figure on a path under cloudy sky.

Untitled (man with cows grazing near pond with house and trees in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Loose painting of a sunlit woodland with tall trees, leafy canopy, and a shaded pond edge with reeds.

Wooded Landscape

Samuel Isham, 1910

Painting of a sunlit hill with scattered trees, green shrubs, and a pale turquoise sky above rust-colored slopes.

Hill with Trees

Eleanor Harris, 1940

Painting of a dirt path through a grassy meadow beside dark trees, with rolling hills and a cloudy sky beyond.

Untitled (landscape with road near stream and trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Expressionist painting of a forest with arching red tree trunks, dark green foliage, and a pale path leading into the trees.

Red Tree

Marsden Hartley, 1910

Painting of cattle standing in water beneath dark arching trees, with a glowing cloudy sky and green hill beyond.

Landscape with Trees and Cattle

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1890

Painting of a dirt path past rocks and trees, with a lake and billowing clouds under a blue sky.

Landscape (trees and rocks by lake)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Oil painting of an ornate interior with a seated woman in a patterned gown, carved archway, and sunlit window.

De Forest Interior

Walter L. Palmer, 1870

Watercolor of a Cucumber Tree branch with a yellow-green magnolia bud and long green leaves on a pale background.

Cucumber Tree (Magnolia scuminata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Painting of a cluster of dark trees in a meadow with grazing cattle under a cloudy sky.

Tree Landscape

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870