Pastoral Scenes
Landscape with Covered Wagon
Asher Brown Durand
A dramatic Hudson River School landscape capturing the pioneering spirit of the mid-19th century American wilderness.
Dramatic Bold
High-presence works with contrast, confidence, and stronger visual punch.
Stronger contrast, deeper color, and confident composition give these works their statement-making energy.
Pastoral Scenes
Two Guides
Winslow Homer
A masterful depiction of Adirondack wilderness featuring two guides surveying a sweeping mountain landscape.
Moody Landscapes
Landscape
Edward Mitchell Bannister
A moody, tonalist landscape featuring a prominent tree against a dramatic expanse of rolling clouds.
Pastoral Scenes
Bringing Home the New Born Lamb
Elliott Daingerfield
A luminous Tonalist scene of pastoral life, capturing two figures and their sheep under a dramatic twilight sky.
Moody Landscapes
Sunrise
Theodore Clement Steele
A contemplative 19th-century landscape capturing the quiet, dramatic light of a breaking dawn.
Moody Landscapes
Landscape
George Inness
This evocative Tonalist landscape by George Inness captures a fleeting moment of atmospheric tension between light and an approaching storm.
Old World Portraits
Abraham Lincoln
George Peter Alexander Healy
An iconic and dignified 1860 portrait of Abraham Lincoln by George Peter Alexander Healy.