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Also Known As watercolor painting • watercolor • watercolour painting

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Albrecht Dürer: The Monumental Turf
Painting by Thomas Moran showing Tower Falls cascading down rocky cliffs with Sulphur Mountain in the background, pine trees, and two small figures standing near the waterfall.
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Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
British-American artist
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross  (The Gross Clinic)
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
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Maria Martin
American artist
Self-portrait by John Constable
John Constable
British artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
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Henry Darger
American artist and writer
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Georges Rouault
French artist
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Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
German artist
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Carol Rama
Italian artist
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Sherrie Levine
American artist
Portrait of John Singer Sargent in profile, wearing a suit and tie, facing to the right with a trimmed beard and short hair.
John Singer Sargent
Italian-born American painter
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
American artist
Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland
Emil Nolde
German artist
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Pancho Fierro
Peruvian artist
Poet and painter Edward Lear
Edward Lear
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