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Soaring Eagle, Jr.

Soaring Eagle, Jr.

Joseph Henry Sharp
Painting
1893-1902
Owner: Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Richard Mentor Johnson

James Paxton Voorhees
Sculpture
1895
Owner: U.S. Senate

Maud Cook Reid

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
Painting
1895?
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

The Pink Sash (Ellen Mary Cassatt)

Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Painting
c. 1898
Owner: Private Collection

Woman with Bow

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
1887?
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ton-hadle-i-c-o

Ton-hadle-i-c-o

Elbridge Ayer Burbank
Painting
c. 1900
Owner: The Butler Institute of American Art

Mary B. Thayer

Abbott Handerson Thayer
Drawing
1897
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pond Piece From the

Pond Piece From the "Ridge"

Margaret "Daisy" Sutermeister
Photograph
c. 1900
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West

Young Thomas and his Mother

Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Drawing
1893
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Egyptian Woman with Earrings

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
1890-91
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thomas McCarthy

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1860
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Yellow Hawk

Antonion Zeno Shindler
Painting
c. 1887
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

William Stone

Ida Story Hammond
Drawing
c. 1890
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Archives

Two Sketches: Antonio Galassi and Little Sisters

Marietta Minnigerode
Drawing
1892
Owner: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

Miss Litchfield

Daniel Huntington
Drawing
August 2, 1897
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

The Sisters

Frank Weston Benson
Painting
1899
Owner: Terra Foundation for American Art

Edward J. Nolan

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
Painting
c. 1900
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mrs. George McCulloch (Mary Agnes)

John Singer Sargent
Painting
c. 1901
Owner: National Gallery of Southern Australia
Kah-kap-tee

Kah-kap-tee

Elbridge Ayer Burbank
Painting
1898
Owner: Field Museum of Natural History

Camille D'Avouille

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
c. 1895
Owner: Addison Gallery of American Art

Samuel Prentiss

Thomas Waterman Wood
Painting
1895
Owner: Vermont Historical Society

Leontine A. Gachon Lowe

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1890-1900
Owner: Pasadena Historical Society

Mrs. George Disney Maquay (Nina Cooley)

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
c. 1904
Owner: Mrs. George Hyde Villiers

Helen Velasquez Chase

William Merritt Chase
Painting
c. 1902
Owner: Private collection

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    • Sculpture  850
    • Drawings  776
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    • Photographs  272
    • Exterior views  255
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