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Georgia O’Keeffe

On October 26, 2025 - 20th Century, American, november 15

Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter, November 15, 1887-March 6, 1986

Red and Orange Streak, 1919 Oil on canvas 27 x 22.9 in // Philadelphia Art Museum

Blue and Green Music, 1919-1921 Oil on canvas, 22.9 x 19 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Pink Dish and Green Leaves, 1929 Pastel on board, 22 x 28 in // Private Collection

Radiator Building – Night, New York, 1927 Oil on canvas, 47.9 x 30 in // The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Wave, Night, 1928 Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 1/4 in // Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Blue #2, c 1916 Watercolor on paper, 15.8 x 10.9 in // Brooklyn Museum

Evening Star No. III, 1917 Watercolor on paper on board, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 in // Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sunrise, 1916 Watercolor Private collection

Lake George Reflection, c 1921–1922 Oil on canvas, 34 x 57.9 in // Private collection

The Chestnut Tree, 1924 Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 1/8 inches Private Collection

Purple Hills Ghost Ranch-2 / Purple Hills No II, 1934

Georgia O'Keeffe, Flower Abstraction, 1924 Oil on canvas, 48 1/8 × 30in

Flower Abstraction, 1924 Oil on canvas, 48 1/8 × 30 in Private collection

Childe Hassam

On October 14, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, october 17

Childe Hassam, American painter, October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935

The Avenue in the Rain, 1917 Oil on canvas, 42 x 22.2 in // The White House, Washington DC

Childe Hassam, View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in Princeton University Art Museum

View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in // Princeton University Art Museum

Late Afternoon, New York, Winter, c 1900 Oil on canvas, 36.9 x 29 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Church at Old Lyme, 1905 Oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910 Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 19 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Water Garden, 1909 Oil on canvas, 24 x 35.9 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Drydock, Gloucester, c 1890 Watercolor over ink and graphite, 13 3/16 in x 19 1/2 in // The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Washington's Birthday — Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, 1916 Etching, 10.2 x 15.7 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Norman Structure, 1885 Pen and black ink over graphite on board, 10 3/8 x 7 5/8 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine, 1890 Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 21.4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Childe Hassam, The Gorge, Appledore, circa 1912 Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 13.8 x 19.8 in Brooklyn Museum

The Gorge, Appledore, circa 1912 Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 13.8 x 19.8 in // Brooklyn Museum

Childe Hassam, Back Road, circa 1884 Oil on canvas, 31 x 24.7 in Brooklyn Museum

Back Road, circa 1884 Oil on canvas, 31 x 24.7 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Gilbert Stuart

On August 12, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, American, december 3

Gilbert Stuart, American painter, December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828

Self-portrait, circa 1778 Oil on canvas, 16.7 x 12.7 in // Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island

Horatio Gates, ca. 1793–94 Oil on canvas, 44 1/4 x 35 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1784 Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in // National Gallery of Art, London

Colonel Isaac Barré, 1785 Oil on canvas, 35 13/16 x 27 3/4 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Portrait of Joseph Brant, 1785 Oil on canvas, 31.6 x 27.6 in // British Museum, London

Sarah Siddons, 1787 Oil on canvas, 29.4 x 24.4 in // National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Robert Livingston, 1793-1794 Oil on canvas, 35.9 x 28.2 in // Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, New York

Catherine Brass Yates, 1793 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 25.1 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Portrait of John Jay, 1794 Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 40.1 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

William Bayard, 1794 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 27.1 in // Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Colonel James Swan, 1795 Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Abigail Smith Adams, between 1810 and 1815 Oil on canvas, 28.8 x 23.5 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

John Adams, circa 1800/1815 Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Major-General Henry Dearborn, 1812 Oil on panel, 28.1 x 22.4 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Demuth

On July 27, 2025 - 20th Century, American, november 8

Charles Demuth, American artist, November 8,, 1883 - October 23, 1935

Self-Portrait, 1907 Oil on canvas, 26 1/16 x 18 inches // The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, PA.

Charles Demuth, In Vaudeville: Acrobatic Male Dancer with Top Hat, 1920 Watercolor, graphite, and charcoal on wove paper Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

In Vaudeville: Acrobatic Male Dancer with Top Hat, 1920 Watercolor, graphite, and charcoal on wove paper, 13 x 8 in Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

Pink Tulips, 1930 Watercolor and graphite on paper 13 5/8 x 19 1/4 inches // The Demuth Museum, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Dancing Sailors, 1917 Watercolor over graphite, 8 1/16 x 10 1/8 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Musician, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 3/8 x 8 in Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928 Oil on board, 35.5 x 30 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Iris, 1933 Watercolor and pencil on paper, 8 1/16 x 10 1/8 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Bermuda No. 2, The Schooner, 1917 Watercolor and graphite on paper, 10 x 13.8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Love, Love, Love. Homage to Gertrude Stein, 1928 Oil on panel, 20 x 21 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Chimney and Water Tower, 1931 Oil on board Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth

Machinery, 1920 Gouache and graphite on paperboard, 24 x 19 7/8 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

After Sir Christopher Wren, 1920 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cardboard, 24 x 20 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lulu and Alva Schön at Lunch, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 7.9 x 12.9 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

The Death of Countess Geschwitz, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 7.9 x 12.9 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Piano Mover's Holiday, 1919 Distemper on composition board, 20 x 15.9 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Calla Lilies/Bert Savoy, 1927 Oil on board, 40.9 x 47.5 in // Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Lancaster, 1921 Tempera and pencil on paperboard, 19.8 x 16 in Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Bermuda: Tree, 1917 Edit this at Wikidata Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 10 x 14 in // Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

William Merritt Chase

On July 12, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, november 1

William Merritt Chase, American painter, November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916

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Afternoon by the Sea (Gravesend Bay), ca 1888 Pastel on linen

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William Merritt Chase, Mrs Meigs Playing the Piano, 1883

Mrs Meigs Playing the Piano, 1883 Oil on canvas Unknown location

End of the Season, c. 1885 Pastel on paper, 13.8 x 17.7 in // Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley

The Mirror, c.1883 Oil on canvas Private Collection

The White Fence Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in

Portrait of Louis Betts Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in Private Collection

For the Little One, aka Hall at Shinnecock Oil on canvas, 35 x 40 in

Afternoon Shadows Oil on panel

Frank Duveneck

On July 8, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, october 9

Frank Duveneck, American painter, October 9, 1848 - January 3, 1919

Self-portrait, circa 1877 Oil on canvas, 29.3 x 23.7 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

The Turkish Page, 1876 Oil on canvas, 42 x 58 1/4 in // Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

The Cobbler’s Apprentice, 1877 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 27.8 in // Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati

Elizabeth Boott Duveneck, 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.7 x 34.7 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Portrait of Maggie Wilson, 1898 Oil on cardboard, 15 x 12 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Major Dillard H. Clark, 1877 Oil on canvas Formerly Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Winslow Homer Oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 20 x 15.9 in // Private collection

Reclining Nude, 1892 Oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art

Portrait of Marie Danforth Page, circa 1889 Oil on canvas, 37.9 x 25.2 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Beechwoods at Polling, circa 1876 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Still-life with Watermelon, circa 1878 Oil on canvas, 25 x 38 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

Professor Ludwig Loefftz, circa 1873 Oil on canvas, 37.9 x 28.7 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

John Henry Twachtman

On July 5, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, august 4

John Henry Twachtman, American painter, August 4, 1853 - August 8, 1902

Gertrude Käsebier, John Henry Twachtman, c 1900

Arques-la-Bataille, 1885 Oil on canvas, 60 x 78 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Snow Scene, ca. 1890 - 1895 Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum

Icebound, c. 1889 Oil on canvas, 25 5/16 × 30 3/16 in // Art Institute of Chicago

John Singleton Copley

On June 29, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, American, july 3

John Singleton Copley, American painter, July 3, 1738 - September 9, 1815

Self-Portrait, between circa 1780 and circa 1784 Oil on canvas, 22.2 in x 22.2 in // National Portrait Gallery, Washington

John Singleton Copley, Study for "The Surrender of the Dutch Admiral De Winter to Admiral Duncan, October 11, 1797": Three Figures Raising the Colors Black and red chalk and white-chalk heightening on blue laid paper, 12 7/16 x 9 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Study for "The Surrender of the Dutch Admiral De Winter to Admiral Duncan, October 11, 1797": Three Figures Raising the Colors Black and red chalk and white-chalk heightening on blue laid paper, 12 7/16 x 9 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mrs Humphrey Devereux, 1771 Oil on canvas, 40.15 x 31.88 in // Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

Epes Sargent, circa 1760 Oil on canvas, 49 13/16 x 40 1/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Head of a Black Man, 1777 or 1778 Oil on canvas, 20.9 x 16.2 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, circa 1765-1766 Oil on canvas, 30 x 25.5 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Mrs. George Watson, 1765 Oil on canvas, 49.87 x 40 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum

Mrs. John Amory, circa 1763 Oil on canvas, 49.8 x 40 in // Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Gage, circa 1771 Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in // Timken Museum of Art, San Diego

Dorothea Tanning

On June 21, 2025 - 20th Century, 21st Century, American, august 25

Dorothea Tanning, American artist, August 25, 1910-January 31, 2012

Midi et Demi (Half past Noon), 1956-1957 Oil on canvas, 51 3/8 x 64 in // Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Still in the Studio, 1979 Oil on canvas, 51 3/16 in x 38 3/16 in // Mount Holyoke Museum of Art, South Hadley, Massachusetts

The Civilizing Influence, 1944 Oil on canvas

Theodoor van Loon

On June 21, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, American, Flemish

Theodoor van Loon, Flemish painter, 1581 or 1582-1649

Theodoor van Loon, Virgin and Child between Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 67.3 in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Virgin and Child between Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 67.3 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Pietà, between 1582 and 1660 Oil on canvas, 60.2 x 49.1 in // National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg

The Adoration of the Magi Oil on canvas, 70.9 x 89.4 in // Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Martyrdom of St Lambert, 1617 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 86.6 in // Sint-Lambertuskerk, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium

Assumption of Mary Oil on canvas, 11.6 ft x 93.3 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Holy Trinity with Mary, St. John the Baptist and Angels

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