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Works on Paper. 2009, acrylic gouache on paper by Peter McDonald (b.1973). © the artist & Kate MacGarry Gallery. photo credit: Government Art Collection

Works on Paper
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An Artist Wields a Painter's Brush. 1974, gloss paint on hardboard by Patrick Hughes (b.1939). © the artist. Photo credit: Norfolk Museums Service

An Artist Wields a Painter's Brush
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Trees and Pink Sky. (detail), oil on canvas by Sidney Herbert Sime (1865–1941). Photo credit: Sidney H. Sime Art Gallery

Trees and Pink Sky
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Three Tahitans. (detail), 1988, oil on canvas by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). photo credit: National Galleries of Scotland

Three Tahitans
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A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula. (detail), early 1650s, oil on copper by Jan van Kessel the elder (1626–1679). photo credit: The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula
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Deep Twilight, Pyrenees. 1912–1913, oil on panel by James Dickson Innes (1887–1914). Photo credit: Yale Center for British Art

Deep Twilight, Pyrenees
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