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Untitled, Unknown, England, circa 1851, Photographs, Albumen and salt print.

Abstraction: Blue, Yellow and Green, Marsden Hartley (United States, Maine, Lewiston, 1877-1943), United States, circa 1913, Paintings, Oil on canvas, During his first trip abroad Hartley felt closest to the German avant-garde, who shared with him a concern for the spiritual.

Portrait of Priest Pyeongwondang, Unknown, Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), 19th century, Paintings, Panel, ink and color on silk, After the death of a Buddhist patriarch, his portrait was often painted to pay tribute to him.

Architectonic Painting, Lyubov Popova (Russia, 1889-1924), Russia, 1917, Paintings, Oil on canvas.

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The street and sidewalks are empty; not a person, car, or even a stray dog is to be seen. What is the viewer supposed to see in this unpopulated street illuminated by glowing street lamps?

Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006

Stella believed that every day should "begin and end [with] the painting of a flower." The exotic plants he sketched in the Bronx Botanical Garden resurface in this imaginary scene of the Bay of Naples, drawn with the precision and love of nature that Ste

Curry created this painting of green pastures and fat cattle to reassure Americans worn down by the Dust Bowl years. A prize bull fills the canvas, grazing contentedly in meadows that fall away on all sides.

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Egon Schiele depicted a small child, the son of a friend, in this drawing devoid of setting. The child teeters at an awkward angle, seemingly unsupported but for a multipatterned fabric wrap that

Cleveland’s 1925 purchase of this work by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec marked the first acquisition of one of the artist’s drawings by a museum in the United States. Its subject, Monsieur Boileau, was a

Homer’s subject was inspired by a sentimental poem popular at the time, in which a Civil War soldier carves a wooden pipe and daydreams of the time when the conflict will end so that he can return

In August 1868 Winslow Homer, then working as a free-lance illustrator, visited the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As early as the 1820s, American artists used the White Mountains as a setting for