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Cecilia Beaux
Sita and Sarita, c. 1921
oil on canvas
overall: 113.3 x 83.8 cm (44 5/8 x 33 in.)
framed: 134.9 x 103.5 x 8.3 cm (53 1/8 x 40 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

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George Bellows
Forty-two Kids, 1907
oil on canvas
overall: 106.7 x 153 cm (42 x 60 1/4 in.)
framed: 103.82 x 170.18 x 7.62 cm (40 7/8 x 67 x 3 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

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Albert Bierstadt
Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869
oil on canvas
overall: 74.9 x 125.7 cm (29 1/2 x 49 1/2 in.)
framed: 110.8 x 162.2 x 15.9 cm (43 5/8 x 63 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie)

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Albert Bierstadt
The Last of the Buffalo, 1888
oil on canvas
overall: 180.3 x 301 cm (71 x 118 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mary [Mrs. Albert] Bierstadt)

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John George Brown
The Longshoremen's Noon, 1879
oil on canvas
Unframed: 33 1/16 x 50 1/8 in. (84 x 127.3 cm)
framed: 43 1/4 x 60 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (109.9 x 153 x 9.5 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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Frederic Edwin Church
Tamaca Palms, 1854
oil on canvas
overall: 67.9 x 91.3 cm (26 3/4 x 35 15/16 in.)
framed: 103.5 x 127.6 x 14.6 cm (40 3/4 x 50 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

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Frederic Edwin Church
Niagara, 1857
oil on canvas
overall: 101.6 x 229.9 cm (40 x 90 1/2 in.)
framed: 164.5 x 286.4 x 17.8 cm (64 3/4 x 112 3/4 x 7 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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Thomas Cole
The Departure, 1837
oil on canvas
overall: 100.3 x 161.6 cm (39 1/2 x 63 5/8 in.)
framed: 133.4 x 194.6 x 15.9 cm (52 1/2 x 76 5/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

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Thomas Cole
The Return, 1837
oil on canvas
overall: 100.3 x 161.4 cm (39 1/2 x 63 9/16 in.)
framed: 132.7 x 194.6 x 15.2 cm (52 1/4 x 76 5/8 x 6 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

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Aaron Douglas
Into Bondage, 1936
oil on canvas
overall: 153.4 x 153.7 cm (60 3/8 x 60 1/2 in.)
framed: 169.2 x 169.2 x 7 cm (66 5/8 x 66 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase and partial gift from Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr., The Evans-Tibbs Collection)

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Thomas Eakins
Singing a Pathetic Song, 1881
oil on canvas
overall: 114.3 x 81.8 cm (45 x 32 3/16 in.)
framed: 132.7 x 100.3 x 8.3 cm (52 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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Sanford Robinson Gifford
Ruins of the Parthenon, 1880
oil on canvas
overall: 70.2 x 135.6 cm (27 5/8 x 53 3/8 in.)
framed: 110.5 x 174.3 cm (43 1/2 x 68 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase Gallery Fund)

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Marsden Hartley
Berlin Abstraction, 1914/1915
oil on canvas
overall: 80.8 x 64.8 cm (31 13/16 x 25 1/2 in.)
framed: 101 x 85.1 x 5.7 cm (39 3/4 x 33 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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George Peter Alexander Healy
Abraham Lincoln, 1860
oil on canvas
overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
framed: 100 x 87.3 x 14.6 cm (39 3/8 x 34 3/8 x 5 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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Edward Hopper
Ground Swell, 1939
oil on canvas
overall: 92.7 x 127.6 cm (36 1/2 x 50 1/4 in.)
framed: 127.3 x 152.4 cm (50 1/8 x 60 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)

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John La Farge
Flowers on a Window Ledge, c. 1861
oil on canvas
overall: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
framed: 76.2 x 66 x 7.6 cm (30 x 26 x 3 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund)

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Frank Blackwell Mayer
Leisure and Labor, 1858
oil on canvas
framed: 23 3/8 x 30 3/4 x 4 in. (59.4 x 78.1 x 10.2 cm)
Unframed: 15 9/16 x 22 13/16 in. (39.5 x 57.9 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

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Alfred Jacob Miller
Election Scene, Catonsville, Baltimore County, c. 1860
oil on academy board
overall: 28.7 x 39.4 cm (11 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
framed: 38.1 x 48.3 x 2.5 cm (15 x 19 x 1 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie)

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
The House of Representatives, 1822
oil on canvas
overall: 220.7 x 331.8 cm (86 7/8 x 130 5/8 in.)
framed: 256.5 x 363.2 x 10.5 cm (101 x 143 x 4 1/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum purchase, Gallery Fund)

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William Sidney Mount
The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern, 1837
oil on panel
overall: 42.5 x 55.9 cm (16 3/4 x 22 in.)
framed: 66.4 x 79.7 x 13 cm (26 1/8 x 31 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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Hiram Powers
The Greek Slave, modeled 1841-1843, carved 1846
marble
overall: 167.5 51.4 x 47 cm (65 15/16 x 20 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

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Frederic Remington
Off the Range (Coming Through the Rye), modeled 1902, cast 1903
bronze
overall: 73.03 x 71.12 x 72.71 cm (28 3/4 x 28 x 28 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

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John Singer Sargent
Simplon Pass, 1911
oil on canvas
overall: 71.8 x 92.6 cm (28 1/4 x 36 7/16 in.)
framed: 92.1 x 112.7 x 8.9 cm (36 1/4 x 44 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)

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John Sloan
Yeats at Petitpas', 1910 - c. 1914
oil on canvas
actual: 26 1/16 x 32 in. (66.2 x 81.3 cm)
framed: 31 7/8 x 37 15/16 x 2 9/16 in. (81 x 96.4 x 6.5 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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Abbott Handerson Thayer
Mount Monadnock, probably 1911/1914
oil on canvas
overall: 56.4 x 61.4 cm (22 3/16 x 24 3/16 in.)
framed: 78.4 x 83.2 x 6.7 cm (30 7/8 x 32 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Anna E. Clark Fund)

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Richard Caton Woodville
Waiting for the Stage, 1851
oil on canvas
overall: 38.1 x 46 cm (15 x 18 1/8 in.)
framed: 52.4 x 60.3 x 8.6 cm (20 5/8 x 23 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum purchase, Gallery Fund, William A. Clark Fund, and through the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie and Orme Wilson)

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John Singer Sargent
En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish), 1878
oil on canvas
overall: 78.7 x 122.9 cm (31 x 48 3/8 in.)
framed: 112.4 x 156.8 x 13.3 cm (44 1/4 x 61 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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Theodore Robinson
The Valley of the Seine, from the Hills of Giverny, 1892
oil on canvas
overall: 65.9 x 81.6 cm (25 15/16 x 32 1/8 in.)
framed: 97.2 x 113 x 14.6 cm (38 1/4 x 44 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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John Singer Sargent
Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White), 1883
oil on canvas
Unframed: 88 5/8 x 56 5/8 in. (225.1 x 143.8 cm)
framed: 98 x 66 x 4 1/2 in. (248.9 x 167.6 x 11.4 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Gift of John Campbell White)

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Charles Bird King
Poor Artist's Cupboard, c. 1815
oil on panel
overall: 75.6 x 70.5 cm (29 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and Exchange)

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Albert Bierstadt
Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877
oil on canvas
overall: 154.1 x 243.5 cm (60 11/16 x 95 7/8 in.)
framed: 214.9 x 302.3 x 21.6 cm (84 5/8 x 119 x 8 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

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National Gallery of Art Announces Historic Acquisition of More Than 6,000 Works of Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Plus Upcoming Installations at the Gallery and the Corcoran

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