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Augustus Saint-Gaudens

On February 23, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, march 1

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish and American sculptor, March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907

De Witt Ward

Augustus Saint-Gaudens in his Studio, 1905

Hiawatha, 1872-1874

Marble

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkAugustus Saint-Gaudens,

Farragut Statue, 1880

Bronze

Madison Square, New York

The Puritan, 1881

Bronze

Merrick Park, Springfiel, Massachusetts

Oliver Ames, Jr, 1883

Bronze relief

Ames Free Library, North Easton, Massachusetts

Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, 1884

Bronze

Boston Common

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887

Bronze relief

Honolulu Museum of Art

Statue of Abraham Lincoln, 1887

Bronze

Lincoln Park, Chicago

The Peace of God, also Known as the Adams Memorial or Grief, 1891

Bronze

Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C

Diana, 1892 - 93,

Bronze

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Amor Caritas, 1898

Bronze

Cleveland Museum of Art

William T. Sherman Monument, 1903

Bronze

Grand Army Plaza, 59th Street and Fifth Avenue, New Yorkrk.

US $20.00 Gold Piece, 1907

Winslow Homer

On February 15, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, february 24

Winslow Homer, American artist, February 24, 1836-September 29, 1910

Winslow Homer, about 1880

Indian Boy with Canoe, c 1895

Watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 24 in //

Denver Art Museum

Fox Hunt, 1893

Oil on canvas, 37.9 x 68.5 in //

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Mink Pond, 1891

Watercolor over graphite pencil on wove paper, 13.8 x 20 in //

Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Adirondack Guide, 1894

Watercolor over graphite on paper, 15.1 x 21.4 in //

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Salt Kettle, Bermuda, 1899

Watercolor over graphite pencil on wove paper, 13.9 x 20.9 in //

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Driftwood, 1909

Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 28.5 in //

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Red Shirt, Homosassa, Florida, 1904

Watercolor over graphite pencil on paper, 13.9 x 19.7 in //

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Channel Bass, 1904

Watercolor and graphite pencil on wove paper, 11.2 x 19.3 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Eagle's Nest, 1902

Watercolor over graphite pencil on cream-colored wove paper, 21.5 x 13.5 in //

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

The West Wind, 1891

Oil on canvas, 30 x 44 in //

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Summer Night, 1890

Oil on canvas, 30.1 x 40.1 in //

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

West Point, Prout's Neck, 1900

Oil on canvas, 30 x 48.1 in //

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Elie Nadelman

On February 10, 2026 - 20th Century, American, february 20

Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor, February 20, 1882 – December 28, 1946

Elie Nadelman, Unknown date

Ideal Female Head, 1908-11

Private collection

Woman's Head, before 1915

Bronze,

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Dancing Girl, 1916-1918

Gilded bronze and marble

Honolulu Museum of Art

Small Plastic in Bronze, 1914 or before

Standing Nude, c 1908

Gilded bronze

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Circus Women, 1930, David H. Koch Theater, NY

Ballerina, 1920

Art Institute of Chicago

Host, c 1920-23

Cherry wood gessoed and painted and wrought iron

Columbus Museum of Art

Fawn, c 1916–1917

Bronze

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Horse, c 1914

Bronze

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Resting Stag, c 1915

Bronze

Honolulu Museum of Art

Wounded Stag, c 1915

Bronze

Honolulu Museum of Art

Two Figures, c 1917

Drawing

Private collection

Grant Wood

On January 29, 2026 - 20th Century, American, february 13

Grant Wood, American artist, February 13, 1891 - February 12, 1942

Sentimental Ballad, 1940 Oil on masonite, 24 × 50 in // New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut

Self-Portrait, 1932 / 1941 Oil on masonite, 13.9 x 11.7 in // Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

Calendulas, 1938 Oil on composition board, 17.5 x 20.25 inches // Museum of Art Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Plaid Sweater, 1931 Oil on masonite, 29.5 × 24.13 in // University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art

Spring in Town, 1941 Oil on wood, 26 x 24.5 in // Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana

Appraisal, 1932 Oil on composition board Dubuque Museum of Art, Iowa

Spring Turning, 1936 Oil on Masonite, 18.25 x 40.13 in // Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Salem, North Carolina

Stone City, Iowa, 1930 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Fall Plowing, 1931 Oil on canvas, 24 x 33.8 in // Deere & Company, Moline, Illinois

Daughters of the American Revolution, 1932 Oil on masonite, 20 x 40 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

January, between 1940 and 1941 Oil on masonite, 26.3 x 32.4 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman with Plants, 1929 Oil on upsom board, 20.5 x 17.9 in // Museum of Art Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Frances Benjamin Johnston

On December 31, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 15

Frances Benjamin Johnston, American Photographer, January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952

Self-portrait by Johnston, Dressed as a Man, Sporting a Fake Mustache and Holding a Bicycle, c 1890

Self-Portrait as "The New Woman," 1896

Frances Benjamin Johnston, With Mattie, With a Painted Backdrop of the Cliff House in San Francisco, California, 1903

Frances Benjamin Johnston Seated at a Desk in Her Studio, 1895

Portrait of Daniel Coit Gilman, c 1890

Booker T Washington, c 1895

George Washington Carver (Front Row, Center) With Fellow Staff Members at the Tuskegee Institute, 1902

Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Wedding Gown, 1906

Natalie Clifford Barney, between c 1890 and c 1910

Signing of the Peace Protocol of the Spanish-American War, August 12, 1898

Ava Astor, between 1900 and 1910

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, c 1903

Marsden Hartley

On December 23, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 4

Marsden Hartley, American Painter, January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943

Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning-- Mexico, 1932 Oil on board, 25 x 29 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Portrait of a German Officer, 1914 Oil on canvas, 68 1/4 x 41 3/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sustained Comedy, 1939 Edit this at Wikidata Oil on academy board, 28.1 x 22 in // Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

The Blast of Winter, 1908 Oil on canvas, 29 5/8 × 29 5/8 in // Whitney Museum, New York

Marsden Hartley, Yliaster (Paracelsus), 1932 Oil on paperboard mounted on particleboard, 25 1⁄4 x 28 1⁄2 in Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Yliaster (Paracelsus), 1932 Oil on paperboard mounted on particleboard, 25 1⁄4 x 28 1⁄2 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1938 Oil on academy board, 28 x 22 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Painting No. 50, 1914 - 15 Oil on canvas, 47 x 47 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Movements, 1913 Oil on canvas, 47 x 47 Art Institute of Chicago

Painting No. 48, circa 1913 Oil on canvas, 47.2 × 47.2 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Lighthouse, 1915

American Indian Symbols, 1914 Oil on canvas Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

The Window, c 1924 Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 25.6 in // Columbus Museum of Art

Joseph Cornell

On December 14, 2025 - 20th Century, American, december 24

Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and assemblage artist, December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972

Blue Soap Bubble, 1949 - 1950 Box onstruction, 9.6 x 12 x 3.8 in // Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Palace, 1943 Box construction, 10.5 x 20 x 5.1 in // The Menil Collection, Houston

Untitled (Celestial Navigation), 1956-58 Box construction. 12.1 x 17 x 3.6 in // The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943 Box construction. 15.5 x 11.1 x 4.25 in // Des Moines Art Center

Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy), 1942-52 Box construction, 13.9 x 11.2 x 3.9 in // The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation

Toward the Blue Peninsula: for Emily Dickinson, c. 1953 Box construction. 15.3 x 10.2 x 5.5 in // The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

Naples, c. 1942 Box construction, 11.25 x 6.8 x 4.8 in // The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

A Parrot for Juan Gris, 1953–1954 Box construction, 17.75 x 12.2 x 4.6 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington

Untitled (Lily Losch), c 1935-38 The Robert Lehrman Art Trust

Pharmacy, 1943 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation

Joseph Cornell, Setting for a Fairy Tale, 1942 Glass-paned wooden box with printed paper, cardboard, twigs, mirror, and paint Dimensions, 11 9/16 x 14 3/8 x 3 7/8 in Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Setting for a Fairy Tale, 1942 Glass-paned wooden box with printed paper, cardboard, twigs, mirror, and paint Dimensions, 11 9/16 x 14 3/8 x 3 7/8 in // Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Fortune-Telling Parrot for Carmen Miranda), c 1939 Glass-paned wooden box with brass handles, taxidermy parrot, music box parts, dried and varnished leaves, mirror, cardboard, colored and printed papers, wooden branch, metallic stickers, wood, paint, and string, 16 1/16 x 8 3/4 x 6 11/16 inches Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Untitled (Fortune-Telling Parrot for Carmen Miranda), c 1939 Glass-paned wooden box with brass handles, taxidermy parrot, music box parts, dried and varnished leaves, mirror, cardboard, colored and printed papers, wooden branch, metallic stickers, wood, paint, and string, 16 1/16 x 8 3/4 x 6 11/16 inches // Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Paul Manship

On December 2, 2025 - 20th Century, American, december 25

Paul Manship, American Sculptor, December 25, 1885 – January 28, 1966

Paul Manship, The Cycle of Life Sundial Campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts

The Cycle of Life Sundial Campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts The Cycle of Life sundial shows a man, woman and child representing the cycle of life are surrounded by an armillary sphere showing the relationship of the stars and earth. Paul Manship is best known for his Prometheus sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York.

Salome, 1915 Bronze, 18 1/2 x 13 5/8 x 10 3/8 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Artwork at Entrance to 195 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City

Atalanta, 1921 Bronze, 28 3/4 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Diana and a Hound, 1924 Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley Island, South Carolina

The Flight of Europa, 1925 Bronze sculpture with gold leaf Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Bulldog, 1906 Bronze, 2.2 x 2.2 x 1.9 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Danae, 1921 Bronze and wood, 11.4 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Dancer and Gazelles, 1916 Bronze, 32.4 x 33 x 10 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Actaeon, 1925

Europa and the Bull #1, 1924 Bronze and marble, 10.2 x 10.2 x 7.1 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Indian Hunter and His Dog, 1926 Bronze, 23.2 x 23.5 x 7 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

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

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