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A pale-skinned child wearing a short-sleeved red dress and a white bonnet stands before a shadowy green forest under dark clouds in this vertical portrait painting. The child’s over-large head is out of scale with the rest of her body. She looks toward us with brown eyes in her wide, round-jawed face. She has a broad nose, and her pale lips are set in a line. Her lace bonnet lines her black hair like frothy seafoam and is tied with spring-green bows at the top and under her right ear, to our left. The low neckline of her crimson dress is lined with a wide white ruffle. Red fabric covers her hands, which are gathered in front of her waist. Gray clouds sweep over the hazy green forest in the background. A gnarled tree grows up the left side of the painting, framing the girl.
Edward Hicks, Portrait of a Child, c. 1840, oil on wood, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.14

Portrait of a Child

Edward Hicks · c. 1840 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1980.62.14

The Gansevoort Limner, Pieter Vanderlyn, Miss Van Alen, c. 1735, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1956.13.14

Miss Van Alen

The Gansevoort Limner, Pieter Vanderlyn · c. 1735 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1956.13.14

Asahel Powers, Possibly Mrs. William Sheldon, c. 1831, oil on wood, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1953.5.51

Possibly Mrs. William Sheldon

Asahel Powers · c. 1831 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1953.5.51

A view onto buildings, structures, and staircases are painted with areas of tan, pearl white, sapphire blue, smoky purple, turquoise, gray, and black on this horizontal piece of glass. A rounded, silo-like structure fills most of the left third of the composition. The corner of a straw-yellow building mirrors it to the right, and in the space between, a patch of lapis blue suggests a clear sky. Staircases, railings, and walkways painted in shades of gray and black crisscross the structures. Some brushstrokes are visible on the otherwise rigid arrangement of mostly geometric forms.
Charles Sheeler, Western Industrial, 1954, tempera on glass, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund), 2015.19.100

Western Industrial

Charles Sheeler · 1954 · tempera on glass ·  Accession ID  2015.19.100

Edward Hicks, The Landing of Columbus, c. 1837, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.13

The Landing of Columbus

Edward Hicks · c. 1837 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.13

Asahel Powers, Possibly William Sheldon, c. 1831, oil on wood, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1953.5.50

Possibly William Sheldon

Asahel Powers · c. 1831 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1953.5.50

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Robert Rauschenberg, Universal Limited Art Editions, Universal Limited Art Editions, Robert Blackburn, Zigmunds Priede · 1963 · lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.1020

Joseph Whiting Stock, Girl with Reticule and Rose, c. 1840, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.8

Girl with Reticule and Rose

Joseph Whiting Stock · c. 1840 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.8

Joseph Whiting Stock, Baby in Wicker Basket, c. 1840, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.62.23

Baby in Wicker Basket

Joseph Whiting Stock · c. 1840 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.62.23

Lambert Sachs, The Herbert Children, 1857, oil on canvas, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1955.11.2

The Herbert Children

Lambert Sachs · 1857 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1955.11.2