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Awa Tsireh, Black Horse, 1925-1930, watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corbin-Henderson Collection, gift of Alice H. Rossin

-Megan, intern

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Elsie Motz Lowdon, Nude with Goldfish, ca. 1916, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan

-Gloria

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Happy birthday, Thomas Cole!

Thomas Cole, Falls at Catskill, ca. 1828-29, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

-Bridget

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Everett Shinn, The White Ballet, 1904, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum and the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

-Megan, intern

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Unidentified artist, Untitled (Victorian Collage), 1880-90, collage on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Hemphill Event Fund and the Director's Discretionary Fund

-Bridget

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Elaine Kurtz, White Spectrum, 1982, oil on canvas mounted in wooden shadowbox, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist

-Gloria

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Eadweard Muybridge, Woman Throwing Handkerchief in Air, Picking It Up, from the book Animal Locomotion, 1887, collotype, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Paul and Laurette Laessle.

-Megan, intern

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Roberta Williamson, You're Perfect, 1998, hand fabricated, piereced, formed, soldered, bezel set sterling silver, crystal, lithograph, paper, ink, polychrome, steel, plastic, carnelian, brass, and wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum Purchase through the Richard T. Evans Fund

-Gloria

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Mary Vaux Walcott, Small Tiger Lily (Lilium parvum), 1933, watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist

-Bridget

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Birge Harrison, Winter Sunset, ca. 1890, oil on wood mounted on wooden cradle, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

-Can, Intern

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Tom Rost, Camp Cooks, no date, watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

-Gloria

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J. William Fosdick, Adoration of St. Joan of Arc, fire etched wood relief, 1896, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans

-Mason, intern

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Edward Moran, The Sea, 1870, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Clara L. Tuckerman

-Can, Intern 

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Fred Becker, Clambake, ca. 1937, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration

-Gloria

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Edwin Austin Abbey, The Queen in "Hamlet", 1895, pastel on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Sen. Stuart Symington and Rep. James W. Symington

-Amelia 

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Carleton E. Watkins, Yosemite Falls, Reflected, ca. 1870, printed ca. 1875, albumen silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luistia L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

-Mason, intern

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Hughie Lee-Smith, The Beach, 1962, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design

-Can, Intern