PreviewDescriptionArtistNotes
Tornado

by Thomas Cole

1835.
Oil
46 3/8 x 64 5/8 in. (117.8 x 164.2 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Cole, Thomas 
The Departure

by Thomas Cole

1837.
oil on canvas.
39 1/2 x 63 in. (100.3 x 160.0 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Cole, Thomasnotes
Description: View of figures on horseback riding through the ruins of a town, with a sunset in the distance.
The Return

by Thomas Cole

1837.
oil on canvas.
39 3/4 x 63 in. (101.0 x 160.0 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Cole, Thomas 
The House of Representatives

by Samuel F.B. Morse

1822 - 1823
oil on canvas
86-1/2 x 130-3/4 in.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Morse, Samuel F.B.notes
Before achieving fame as the inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph and the Morse code in the 1840s, Samuel F. B. Morse was best known as a major painter and as president of the National Academy of Design in New York City. His stock-in-trade as an artist was romantic portraiture. But he also painted two extraordinary subject pictures, The Gallery...
An English Cod

by William Merritt Chase

1904
oil on canvas.
36 1/4 x 40 1/4 in. (92.1 x 102.2 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Chase, William Merrittnotes
Description: Still life depicting a filleted cod fish draped across a ceramic plate, with two small fish resting nearby on the tabletop. In the background there is metal bucket.
Poor Artist's Cupboard

by Charles Bird King

c. 1815
oil on panel
29-3/4 x 27-3/4 in.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

King, Charles Bird 
Mount Corcoran

by Albert Bierstadt

1877.
oil on canvas.
61 x 96 1/4 in. (154.9 x 244.5 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Bierstadt, Albertnotes
Description: View looking across a blue-green river with mountains on the opposite shore shrouded in low-hanging clouds. In the foreground a black bear lumbers toward the water's edge. In the sky above the sun breaks through the clouds, highlighting a snow-capped Mount Corcoran in the distance.
The Last of the Buffalo

by Albert Bierstadt

1888.
oil on canvas.
71 1/4 x 119 1/4 in. (181.0 x 302.9 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Bierstadt, Albertnotes
Description: Arid western landscape with an Indian on horseback about to thrust a spear into a buffalo charging at him from the side. To the left another buffalo eyes the scene as other Indians on horseback ride in from the right. In the foreground groups of dead bufflo lie on the ground, with the skeletal remains of others scattered around them. In...
Lady with a Mask

by Thomas Wilmer Dewing

ca. 1907.
oil on canvas.
22 3/8 x 24 1/4 in. (56.8 x 61.6 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Dewing, Thomas Wilmernotes
Description: Interior scene depicting a seated female figure holding an Asian mask in her right hand. In the background there is a long narrow tapestry hanging on the wall.
The Edge of the Forest

by Asher Brown Durand

1871
oil on canvas.
78 1/2 x 64 in. (199.4 x 162.6 cm).

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

Durand, Asher Brownnotes
Description: Landscape with a view toward a mountain on the distant horizon, seen through a break in a dense grove of trees.
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