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Drawings & Sketches

75,951 works

Oil sketch of a dark hill under a cloudy sky with peach and gold sunset light breaking through at the left.

Cloudy Skies, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and chalk sketch of a tall royal palm with smaller palms and rows of palms climbing a distant hillside.

Royal Palm, Cuba

Winslow Homer, 1880

Small painted sketch of stone huts with shingled conical roofs beneath a large tree, with an inscription reading Jamaica, Mt.

Village on Mt. Salus, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Dark forest interior with tree ferns and slender trunks rendered in loose brown and green brushwork.

In the Woods, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and white chalk sketch of a wooded hillside with a figure resting in grass on tan paper.

Shepherdess Resting Under a Tree

Winslow Homer, 1870

Oil sketch of green rolling hills, trees and distant ridges under a hazy blue sky in a summer landscape.

Summer View, Hudson Valley, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pen and ink sketch of Paris rooftops and a bell tower, with a man in a cap and a rat on a stone ledge in the foreground.

View of Paris

Winslow Homer, 1860

Engraved view of a palace courtyard with tiled roofs, a stone balustrade, trees, and people walking along a street.

The Imperial Palace, Pekin, by William Simpson (1823-1899)

William Simpson, 1823

Coloured drawing of a formal tent ceremony with seated officials, a turbaned ruler, attendants and a red carpet.

Return visit of the Viceroy to the Maharaja of Cashmere

William Simpson, 1867

Pencil and watercolor study of resting sheep in several groups, with a sketched ram head at upper left on a pale sheet.

Sheep Resting

Winslow Homer, 1870

Loose oil sketch of a rocky hillside overlooking green plains and a distant city under a pink hazy sky.

Damascus, View from the Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor sketch of jagged rock spires in muted violet and peach tones under a pale sky, labeled The Needles.

The Needles

Thomas Moran, 1890

Watercolor and pencil drawing of rocky mountain peaks and snowy slopes above a grassy foreground with boulders.

The Upper End of Little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Range, near Ogden, Utah

Thomas Moran, 1870

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a sheep in a field, with grazing sheep and trees in the background.

Sheep Grazing in a Field

Winslow Homer, 1870

Loose painted woodland scene with dark tree trunks, autumn foliage and a sunlit slope of leaf litter in the foreground.

Woodland Scene

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Pen and wash sketch of a winding road past rocky cliffs, windswept trees and a blue mountain under clouds.

Road in a Mountain Landscape

Thomas Moran, 1870

Oil sketch of three Corinthian columns amid rubble under a sunset sky, with hills and a plain beyond.

Classical Ruins, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch sheet with a standing turbaned man, several bulls, a child on shoulders, and standing figures in robes.

Sketches of Standing Figures and Bulls, Lahore, 18 March 1860

William Simpson, 1860

Watercolor of a domed building and tower on a hill above a river, with trees, a boat, and small figures in the foreground.

Hacienda on the Lerma River, San Juan, Mexico

Thomas Moran, 1890

Oil sketch of a winter landscape at sunset, with dark mountains, evergreens, a pale snowy foreground and a rose-colored sky.

Hudson Valley in Winter, Looking Southwest from Olana

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Watercolor of a misty hillside landscape with evergreens and a red deer standing behind a split-rail fence.

Landscape with Deer in a Morning Haze

Winslow Homer, 1900

Sepia wash drawing of pale rock cliffs and dark evergreen trees in a misty valley landscape.

Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1870

Oil sketch of billowing cumulus clouds over a dense band of green tropical trees under a pale blue sky.

Thunder Clouds, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Small painted landscape of green forested hills under a towering pink sunset cloud, with a valley receding into haze.

Sunset over Hilltops, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil and white chalk drawing of a woodland slope with trees and flowering shrubs, inscribed Goat Island, by Frederic Edwin

Goat Island, Niagara River, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and ink drawing of a woman's head with an upswept hairstyle, looking down, with a signature at lower left.

A Lady's Head, from Scribner's "Eighty Drawings including the Weaker Sex"

Charles Dana Gibson, 1900

Graphite drapery study of a seated figure with gridlines, drawn for a mural at the Essex County Court House.

Drapery Study for Figure of Peace in "The Beneficence of the Law," Mural at Essex County Court House, Newark, New Jersey

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Pencil and chalk drawing of a stone church with a tower beside a winding path, dunes and trees, and water on the horizon.

Landscape

Howard Russell Butler, 1880

Pencil and chalk drawing of a Cuban hillside with tall palm trees, grassy tufts in the foreground, and clouds above.

Cuban Hillside

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor portrait of a bearded man in a white fur hat, with cartridge bandoliers across his chest and a rifle on his lap.

QerzechCircassia

William Simpson

Oil sketch of a full rainbow arching over rolling hills and dark trees beneath a warm rosy sky.

Rainbow over a Hilly Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a calm lake, wooded islands, and a distant mountain under a soft sky, with a sandy shore in the foreground.

Mt. Katahdin from the South, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870