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Smithsonian American Art Museum,
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nd
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Robert Hooper
John Singleton Copley
ca. 1770-1772
oil on canvas
Mrs. George Watson
John Singleton Copley
1765
oil on canvas
Samuel F. B. Morse
Horatio Greenough
1831
marble
Mrs. James Smith and Grandson
Charles Willson Peale
1776
oil on canvas
Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, Head Chief,…
George Catlin
1832
oil on canvas
Distant View of the Mandan Village
George Catlin
1832
oil on canvas
Wi-jún-jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light) Going To and…
George Catlin
1837-1839
oil on canvas
The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara
Alvan Fisher
1820
oil on canvas
Melons and Morning Glories
Raphaelle Peale
1813
oil on canvas
A General View of the Falls of Niagara
Alvan Fisher
1820
oil on canvas
Liberty
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
ca. 1884
painted terra cotta and tin
Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees
Charles Bird King
1821
oil on canvas
Sioux Dog Feast
George Catlin
1832-1837
oil on canvas
Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)
Joshua Johnson
ca. 1810
oil on canvas
The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge
Thomas Cole
1829
oil on canvas
Old Arrow Maker
Edmonia Lewis
modeled 1866, carved 1872
marble
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