Pondering

Kawase Hasui

Amanohashidate in Snow

1921 · Multicolor woodblock print · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Reginald Marsh

View of Manhattan

1929 · Watercolor over graphite on medium thick, smooth off-white wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

George Inness

The Meadow

1857 · Oil on pressboard · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Bernie Boston

Flower Power

1967 · Gelatin silver print · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

William Seltzer Rice

Armstrong Grove, Guernville: Afternoon Sunlight

1909 · Watercolor over graphite on medium thick, textured, cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Kawase Hasui

Spring Rain at Gokoku Temple

1932 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Rockwell Kent

Landscape with Sheep

1927 · Watercolor over graphite on moderately off-white wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Dutch 17th Century

Landscape with Traveler

1640 · Pen and brown ink with gray wash on cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Frank Weston Benson

Chickadee

1930 · Drypoint on cream laid paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Abastenia Staint Leger Eberle

The Windy Doorstep

1910 · Bronze · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

James McNeill Whistler

Sketch for Rose and Silver: La Princesse du Pays de la Porcelaine

1864 · Oil on hardboard · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

DeWitt Parshall

Hermit Creek Canyon

1910-1916 · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

William Morris Hunt

Landscape

1845-1879 · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Kerr Eby

A Kiss for the Kaiser

1918 · Etching · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Gabor F. Peterdi

The Vision of Fear

1953 · Etching and engraving on cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Louis Bouché

Greenwich Avenue, New York

20th Century · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

John Singer Sargent

Palms

1917 · Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Earl Horter

Storage Tanks

1931 · Black ink applied with pen and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Ancient Egyptian

Obsidian Fist

1539-1077 BCE · Obsidian · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Henry Bacon

The Nile

1907 · Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Charles-François Daubigny

Bridge on the Yonne (Evening)

1875 · Oil on panel · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Kerr Eby

Where Do We Go?

1918 · Lithograph on cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Ben Schonzeit

Blue Crab

1973 · Acrylic on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Katsushika Hokusai

Bamboo Grove at Kumemura

1832 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

William Seltzer Rice

Marsh Moon

1925 · Woodcut · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

James Dexter Havens

Wind and Snow

1938 · Graphite and colored pencils on cream paperboard · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Hiroshi Yoshida

Kanchenjanga in the Morning

1931 · Woodblock print, ink and color on paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Gustave Baumann

From My Studio Window

1908 · Color woodcut on cream Japan paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Winslow Homer

Grand Discharge, Lake St. John

1897 · Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, smooth off-white wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Katsushika Hokusai

Kiyotaki Kannon Waterfall at Sakanoshita on the Tōkaidō

1833 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Andrew Wyeth

Hay Day

1969 · Transparent and opaque watercolor with scraping out on cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Imamura Yoshio

Cancer

2006 · Etching, engraving, woodcut, chine collé, collagraph, gold, silver, copper and black leaf · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Paul Signac

Golfe Juan

1896 · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Jozef Israëls

The Anxious Family

1885 · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Jennifer Bartlett

Homan-ji III (203 F)

1995 · Japanese mineral color with gold and silver leaf over silkscreen grid on handmade Kozo paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Henry Bacon

Prayer to the Sphinx

1910 · Watercolor over graphite on medium, slighty textured cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Ancient Colima

Dog Figure A

200 BCE-500 CE · Ceramic · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Gustave Baumann

Grand Cañon

1927 · Opaque watercolor over graphite on medium thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

John La Farge

Wild Roses

1895 · Watercolor and opaque watercolor on medium thick, smooth, cream wove paper, attached to board · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Toni Dove

Land Bird

1974 · Watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, textured off-white wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Earl Horter

The Kitchen, New Orleans

1935 · Aquatint on cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Kobayashi Kiyochika

The Imperial Diet Building on Fire (Teikoku gijidō enjō no zu)

1891 · Woodblock print, ink and color on paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Childe Hassam

Columbus Avenue, Rainy Day

1885 · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

William Trost Richards

Eastern Pennsylvania

1887 · Oil on composition board · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Kay Sage

I Have No Shadow

1940 · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Christoph Unterberger

Study for a Composition with Ignudi and Grotesques and an Allegory of Painting

1776 · Oil on canvas · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

John Singer Sargent

Boats at Anchor

1917 · Transparent watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Ancient Egyptian

Bronze Cat Head

664-332 BCE · Bronze · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Kawase Hasui

Moon over Izura, Ibaraki

1952 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Henry Bacon

Halt in the Valley of Pleasure

1911 · Watercolor over graphite on medium, smooth cream wove paper · Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA