"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out."--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, 1870. From the series Great Ideas of W

The Driller (mural, Rikers Island, New Y... Harold Lehman

Portrait of Ellen Goin Rionda Laura Clifford Barney

Portraits of Two Grizzly Bears, From Lif... George Catlin

Iowa Landscape (mural study, left panel... William C. Palmer

Brook Lobelia (Lobelia kalmii) Mary Vaux Walcott

Daniel Webster Clark Mills