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View of St. Patrick's Cathedral from Inside Rockefeller Center: Study for a Set of Painted Doors
2002
2002.46
Gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on gray paper
Artist/Maker: Richard Haas

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"A Bit of the Old Five Points", New York City
c. 1868
X.415
"A. R." (Ashbel Ralston?): Silhouette
1805
Z.2564eee
"Amigo Protector" Off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York
1814
1953.263
"Arranging the lay figure"
1878-1883
1935.85.1.177
"Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jefferson Davis' Negroes" from his Plantation on the Mississippi Below Vicksburg, Mississippi
ca. 1862
1945.580.107
"Bit on the Boulevard," New York City
1898
1913.24
"Chulas", Four Sketches of Spanish Women
c. 1880
1935.85.1.44
"Come Out of that Coat", Murfreesboro, Tennessee; verso: "Arkansas Toothpick": Bowie Knife
1862
1945.580.17
"Coming Home": Scene Aboard the S.S. Switzerland
1878
1935.85.1.26
"Dancing" Male Figure
1851
1956.233
"Desdemona's House", Palazzo Contarini Fasan, Venice, Italy
c. 1875
1935.85.2.98
"Don't Give Up the Ship"
INV.1217
"Dover Stone Church," Dover Plains, New York
c. 1847
1918.125
"Fame"; Study of a Skull Crowned with Laurel Leaves
1878
1935.85.1.11
"Gol Darn the City Feller": Illustration
1905
1957.248
"Half Moon" and "Clermont" in Hudson River, New York
1909
1943.483
"Hearing Ye Declaration", July 9th, 1776
1936.953
"Hemlock City" Fishing Village, Brooklyn, New York City
1918
1921.65
"I'd Rather Be a Toad . . . ."
ca. 1826-28
1979.31b
"If I Extinguish Thee, Thou Flaming Minister"
ca. 1826-28
1979.32a
"In Nature's Clubhouse --The Grill-Room": Illustration for "Puck"
c. 1913
1969.58
"In Old New York": Cover Design and Mock Layout
c. 1914-19
INV.14854
"In Shanty Town," New York City
X.495
"Joan of Arc Seeing Visions"
1878-1883
1935.85.1.101
"Le Pisan", Sketch of a Woman's Head
c. 1876
1935.85.2.177
Creative: Tronvig Group