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Media - 1929.6.62 - SAAM-1929.6.62_2 - 133481

The South Ledges, Appledore

Childe Hassam
1913
oil on canvas
Media - 1978.72 - SAAM-1978.72_4 - 128231

Whaler off the Vineyard–Outward Bound

William Bradford
1859
oil on fiberboard
Media - 1911.4.1 - SAAM-1911.4.1_2-000001 - 137220

Aurora Borealis

Frederic Edwin Church
1865
oil on canvas
Media - 1909.7.29 - SAAM-1909.7.29_2 - 134280

High Cliff, Coast of Maine

Winslow Homer
1894
oil on canvas
Media - 1976.118 - SAAM-1976.118_1 - 67383

Castle Rock, Marblehead

Alfred Thompson Bricher
1878
oil on canvas
Media - 1983.95.215 - SAAM-1983.95.215_1 - 65171

Fishermen at Sea

Henry Ossawa Tanner
ca. 1913
oil on canvas
Media - 1983.95.104 - SAAM-1983.95.104_2 - 135825

Ocean Cliffs

Edward Mitchell Bannister
1881
oil on canvas
Media - 1964.2R - SAAM-1964.2R_1 - 52036

The Sea, Maine

John Marin
1921
watercolor and charcoal on paper
Media - 1929.6.101 - SAAM-1929.6.101_1 - 64663

Lord Ullin’s Daughter

Albert Pinkham Ryder
before 1907
oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
Media - 1944.11.1 - SAAM-1944.11.1_1 - 1048

Clearing after September Gale–Maine Coast

Howard Russell Butler
ca. 1924
oil on canvas
Media - 1983.95.28 - SAAM-1983.95.28_1 - 53076

Crossing the Atlantic (Return Home)

Henry Ossawa Tanner
1894
watercolor and pencil on paper mounted on paperboard
Media - 1971.447.69 - SAAM-1971.447.69_1 - 84302

Turbulent Sea

Joseph De Martini
ca. 1939
tempera on paperboard
Media - 1974.28.78 - SAAM-1974.28.78_1-000001 - 120146

Untitled (Seascape with Houses on Beach)

Unidentified (American)
oil on fiberboard
Media - RF.3.205 - SAAM-RF.3.205_1 - 71502

Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972…

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo
Jeanne-Claude
September 4, 1976
color photograph
Media - 1962.4.11 - SAAM-1962.4.11_1 - 52535

The Open Sea

William Henry Holmes
1904
watercolor

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Media - 1929.6.58 - SAAM-1929.6.58_1 - 415

Maréchal Niel Roses

Childe Hassam
1919
oil on canvas
Media - 1929.6.62 - SAAM-1929.6.62_2 - 133481

The South Ledges, Appledore

Childe Hassam
1913
oil on canvas
Media - 1909.7.27 - SAAM-1909.7.27_1 - 64

Spring, Navesink Highlands

Childe Hassam
1908
oil on canvas
Media - 1970.73 - SAAM-1970.73_1 - 3617

Fort George Island, Florida

Thomas Moran
1878
oil on canvas
Media - 1968.120.2 - SAAM-1968.120.2_1 - 53578

A Mexican Hacienda, Lake Cuitzeo

Thomas Moran
1885
oil on wood
Media - 1936.12.4 - SAAM-1936.12.4_1 - 924

Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory

Thomas Moran
1882
oil on canvas

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