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Fidelia Bridges, Thistle in a Field, 1875. Oil on canvas. Florence Griswold Museum, Connecticut.

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Henry Ward Ranger, Autumn Woodlands, 1902. Oil on canvas. Florence Griswold Museum.

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Henry Ward Ranger, Connecticut Woods, 1899. Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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Pieter Daniel Dik (1943–1984), Boars on a Forest Path.

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Pieter Daniel Dik (1943–1984), Deer in a Forest in Winter.

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Pieter Daniel Dik (1943–1984), A Deer. Oil on canvas.

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Bird plumage photos by Thaddeus Holownia

Accipiter gentilis / Northern Goshawk

Cyanocitta cristata / Blue Jay

Falco sparverius / American Kestrel

Falcipennis canadensis / Spruce Grouse

Numida meleagris / Helmeted Guinea Fowl

Colaptes auratus / Northern Flicker

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Andrew Wyeth, The Oak, 1944. Watercolor on card. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

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Edward McGuire (Irish, 1932-1986), Barn Owl, 1983. Oil on board, 18 x 24 in.

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Botanical photographs by Jonas Frei

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mount rainier —from sourdough ridge

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Luna moth and buck moth including caterpillar and pupa stages from Agriculture of New-York v.5 (1854).

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Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Winslow Homer, Fox Hunt, 1893. Oil on canvas. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

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Winslow Homer, Right and Left, 1909. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

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Hand-colored lithographic plate by Walter Hood Fitch from James Bateman’s A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants, London, 1867.