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"Brick Kilns," Clay Bluffs 1900 Miles above St. Louis

by George Catlin

1832
oil on canvas
11 1/8 x 14 1/4 in. (28.3 x 36.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
"Smoking Horses," a Curious Custom of the Sauk and Fox

by George Catlin

1835-1836
oil on canvas
19 5/8 x 27 1/2 in.(49.7 x 70.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
"The Goblins 'l Git Yer"

by Helen Hyde

1918
aquatint on paper
3 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (10.0 x 12.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Bazaar

by Thomas Moran

ca 1880-1890
etching on silk mounted on paperboard
5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (14.5 x 8.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Moran, Thomas 
A Breton Sunday

by Eugene Lawrence Vail

ca. 1890
oil on canvas
36 1/2 x 29 1/8 in. (92.6 x 74.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Vail, Eugene Lawrence 
A Bride

by Abbott Handerson Thayer

ca. 1895
oil on canvas
21 x 17 1/8 in. (53.3 x 43.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Thayer, Abbott Handerson 
A Child of the People

by Helen Hyde

1901
color woodcut on paper
10 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. (27.5 x 9.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Choctaw Woman

by George Catlin

1834
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
A Day in June

by Helen Hyde

1910
color woodcut on paper
14 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. (37.0 x 16.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Difficult Place

by Robert Frederick Blum

1877
etching
plate: 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. (18.4 x 12.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Blum, Robert Frederick 
A Family of Birches

by Willard Leroy Metcalf

1907
oil on canvas
29 x 26 in. (73.7 x 66.0 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Metcalf, Willard Leroy 
A General View of the Falls of Niagara

by Alvan Fisher

1820
oil on canvas
34 3/8 x 48 1/8 in. (87.2 x 122.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Fisher, Alvan 
A Gentleman of France

by Helen Hyde

ca. 1899
etching on paper
10 x 8 3/4 in. (25.4 x 22.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Gentlewoman

by Julian Alden Weir

1906
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Weir, Julian Aldennotes
h feelings, artists created images like these of quiet interior scenes, a visually soothing antidote to an unquiet age.
A Head (Henry Wolf, Copy after Thomas Wilmer Dewing )

by Thomas Wilmer Dewing

1913
wood engraving on paper
6 1/4 x 5 in. (15.9 x 12.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer 
A Japanese Madonna

by Helen Hyde

1900
color woodcut on paper
14 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (36.7 x 9.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Javanese "Small Person"

by Helen Hyde

1913
color soft-ground etching on paper
5 x 3 in. (12.7 x 7.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Lady in Black

by Kenyon Cox

1880
oil on canvas
20 3/4 x 12 7/8 in. (52.7 x 32.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Cox, Kenyonnotes
This is a portrait of the wife of Kenyon Cox’s friend the painter Lowell Dyer. In 1880, Cox exhibited the painting in Philadelphia, and also entered it in a Paris show under the French title Dame en noir. This masterful portrait sketch focuses our eyes on Mrs. Dyer’s spirited expression and tilt of the head. Cox’s fast brushwork gives the...
A Mexican Coquette

by Helen Hyde

1912
color woodcut on paper
10 1/8 x 10 1/4 in. (25.7 x 26.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Mexican Hacienda, Lake Cuitzeo

by Thomas Moran

1885
oil on wood
15 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (39.4 x 32.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Moran, Thomas 
A Mexican Rebecca

by Helen Hyde

1912
color woodcut on paper
18 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (46.8 x 21.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Morning in Summer

by Leonard Ochtman

1922
oil on canvas
35 7/8 x 51 7/8 in. (91.1 x 131.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Ochtman, Leonard 
A Native Daughter

by Helen Hyde

1898
color etching on paper
5 x 3 in. (12.6 x 7.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Quiet Nook

by William Hart

1885
oil on wood
10 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (26.2 x 21.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hart, William 
A Rainy Night

by Helen Hyde

1906
etching and aquatint on paper
11 1/2 x 5 in. (29.1 x 12.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Reading

by Thomas Wilmer Dewing

1897
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (51.3 x 76.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Dewing, Thomas Wilmer 
A Roundelay

by Helen Hyde

1906
color woodcut on paper
4 x 8 in. (10.3 x 20.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Seminole Woman

by George Catlin

1838
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, Georgenotes
George Catlin arrived at Fort Moultrie, in Charleston, South Carolina, on January 17, 1838. He painted more than ten portraits of Seminole and Yuchi Indians, including this Seminole woman, in the short time he spent at the fort.
A Snowy Day

by Helen Hyde

1901
color woodcut on paper
7 1/2 x 8 7/8 in. (19.1 x 22.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Hyde, Helen 
A Song

by Alice Pike Barney

ca. 1895
oil on canvas
35 x 22 1/8 in. (88.9 x 56.1 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Barney, Alice Pike 
A Southerly Wind

by Thomas Moran

ca. 1880-1890
etching and chine-colle on paperboard
4 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Moran, Thomas 
A Swiss Lake

by Daniel Huntington

1849
oil on canvas
27 1/8 x 34 in. (69 x 86.3 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Huntington, Daniel 
A Toiler

by John White Alexander

ca. 1898
oil on canvas
40 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. (101.8 x 56.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Alexander, John White 
A View of Venice

by Thomas Moran

1891
oil on canvas
35 1/8 x 25 1/4 in. (89.2 x 64.1 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Moran, Thomas 
A'h-sha-la-coots-ah, Mole in the Forehead, Chief of the Republican Pawnee

by George Catlin

1832
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
A'h-tee-wat-o-mee, a Woman

by George Catlin

1830
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
A-wun-ne-wa-be, Bird of Thunder

by George Catlin

1845
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, Georgenotes
hey so entertained King Louis Philippe that he asked them to perform for the royal family and invited Catlin to exhibit his collection at the Louvre.
A.R.C. Canteen, World War I

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

1918
charcoal on paper mounted on paperboard
17 1/2 x 22 in. (44.4 x 55.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
Above the Lower Fall, Yellowstone

by Thomas Moran

1892
pencil on paper
9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20.0 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Moran, Thomas 
Above Tower Falls, Yellowstone

by Thomas Moran

1872
watercolor and gouache on paper
15 x 10 1/2 in. (38.1 x 26.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Moran, Thomas 
Abraham Lincoln

by George H. Story

1916
oil on canvas
29 7/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.0 x 63.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Story, George H. 
Abraham's Oak

by Henry Ossawa Tanner

1905
oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 28 5/8 in. (54.4 x 72.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Tanner, Henry Ossawa 
After Boltraffio, "Sacre Conversazione"

by Kenyon Cox

1878-1882
oil on canvas
12 5/8 x 12 7/8 in. (32.1 x 32.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Cox, Kenyonnotes
d surrounded by saints. Boltraffio's version depicts the Virgin and child with John the Baptist, Saint Sebastian, and the patrons of the painting, Giacomo Marchione de Pandolfi da Casio and his son Girolamo Casio.
After the Shower

by Edward M. Bannister

oil on paperboard
8 1/2 x 10 in. (21.6 x 25.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Bannister, Edward M. 
After Them

by Walter Ufer

1928
oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (64.1 x 76.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Ufer, Walter 
After Titian's "Madonna of the Rabbit"

by Kenyon Cox

1878-1882
oil on canvas
9 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (23.6 x 28.6 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Cox, Kenyonnotes
Kenyon Cox painted this small, sketchlike image while studying in Paris. Although Cox trained with well-known French artists, his works were largely influenced by Greek, Roman, and Renaissance art. After Titian's "Madonna of the Rabbit" is a copy of a painting in the Louvre by Italian Renaissance artist Titian (about 1490-1576). The triangular...
Afternoon On Saco Bay, Coast Of Maine

by William Frederick De Haas

1874
oil on canvas
14 x 26 1/8 in. (35.6 x 66.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Haas, William Frederick De 
Agnes

by Alice Pike Barney

1903
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Barney, Alice Pike 
Ah'-kay-ee-pix-en, Woman Who Strikes Many

by George Catlin

1832
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
Ah'-sho-cole, Rotten Foot, a Noted Warrior

by George Catlin

1834
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
Ah-mou-a, The Whale, One of Kee-o-kuk's Principal Braves

by George Catlin

1835
oil on canvas
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Catlin, George 
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