This painting of American flags on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan is by one of the most prominent American Impressionists of the early 20th century, Frederick Childe Hassam (known to many as Childe Hassam). The painting depicts both flags hanging on Fifth Avenue as well as reflections of the flags in water following a rainstorm. The Avenue in the Rain is one of 30 flag paintings of his that coincided with World War I. Fifth Avenue in New York City was frequently decorated with American flags at the time, as the United States debated entry into the war. This piece was completed in February of 1917, barely two months before Congress declared war on Germany on April 6th. Six Hassam pieces are in the White House Collection.

This landscape painting is by noted American Impressionist Frederick Childe Hassam (often referred to as Childe Hassam). It shows a snow-covered New York street. The central figure appears to be a young boy slogging his way through the storm. Six Hassam pieces are in the White House Collection.

This is a watercolor painting of the Capitol Building at night by Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. The painting depicts the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C. from a distance at night, with a carriage pulled up to the steps visible beyond the trees. Cooper was an American Impressionist who is most renowned for his architectural paintings, though he also painted portraits, interiors, florals, and landscapes. Cooper and his wife were aboard the RMS Carpathia while it conducted its April 1912 rescue mission of survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Cooper has two paintings in the White House Collection.

This oil painting by Edmund Charles Tarbell depicts a woman holding an oar with a body of water in the background. Tarbell studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at the Academie Julian in Paris. He was a leading member of the Boston School, a group of American Impressionists.

This oil painting by E. Folsom depicts wildflowers overgrowing a stone-lined path. The painting is in the Impressionist style, with mountains in the distant background.

This painting by Daniel Garber depicts a landscape on the banks of the Delaware River in Byram, New Jersey and is an example of Garber's mature art. Garber was an American Impressionist painter and member of the New Hope School.

This painting of two fishing boats docked at the Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, California is by Lillie May Nicholson. Fishermen are seen working on the boats and on the docks. Nicholson was an Impressionist painter who lived on the coast and was known for painting watercolors of the coastline and landscapes surrounding Monterey. Two of her landscapes are in the White House Collection.

This portrait of a mother holding two children is by renowned American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, sometimes referred to as Mary Stevenson Cassatt. The little boy sits on the mother's lap while an older girl leans against her mother's other side. Cassatt was a native of Pennsylvania but moved to Paris and spent much of her life there, where she worked closely with Edgar Degas and others. She is known for her focus on female subjects in her art, particularly mothers and children, as in this painting.

This landscape by American Impressionist Ernest Lawson was completed around 1904. The painting captures a cold day in a small New England town, possibly in the Connecticut Valley, looking up a hillside toward a red brick building, a mill, across an icy river or stream. Lawson was born in Canada but moved to the United States when he was young. He was a member, along with William Glackens, Robert Henri, and other modernist painters, of a group of artists known as The Eight. The group exhibited together in 1908.

This landscape of grassy, rolling dunes by William Merritt Chase was completed in 1900. The dunes are low and covered in thick brush and grass with just a peak of the shore and water at the horizon. Chase, an American Impressionist painter, was well-known for his landscapes of Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, New York. Two of his works are in the White House Collection.

This landscape of a pastoral hillside by Impressionist Willard Leroy Metcalf was completed around 1924. The landscape captures the low-lying hills and valleys of a small countryside with a larger mountain in the distance. There are several houses and farms scattered across the landscape. Metcalf was an American Impressionist painter known for his landscapes.

This painting by Carl Calusd (sometimes credited as Charles Calusd) is a seascape and cityscape of the Statue of Liberty, the symbol of welcome for immigrants arriving at Ellis Island. This Impressionist-style piece shows the Statue of Liberty set against the backdrop of lower Manhattan, with ships large and small around her in the water. Calusd was known for maritime paintings. The painting was a gift presented to the White House in 1909 by Hayozoun Hohannes Topakyan of the Persian consul in New York.

This painting of the Brooklyn Bridge in winter is by Guy C. Wiggins, an American Impressionist who often painted New York City and its five boroughs. Wiggins' painting captures a narrow, snowy, cityscape of the Brooklyn Bridge looming high over its Brooklyn neighborhood with views of the East River and Manhattan in the distance. The White House Historical Association provided partial funding for its donation to the White House Collection.

This landscape painting by noted American Impressionist Frederick Childe Hassam (often referred to as Childe Hassam) is of an idyllic white house or cottage in the Cos Cob neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. The cottage is a traditional New England colonial, complete with a white picket fence and set in the shade of two large trees. Six Hassam pieces are in the White House Collection. This painting was acquired for the White House Collection by the White House Historical Association in 1975.

This landscape was done by Carroll Sargent Tyson, Jr. Tyson was an Impressionist painter and art collector who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Academy in Munich. He was known primarily for painting natural scenery in Maine. This painting depicts a low building and multiple poles and wires high above the men working on the rocks.

This oil painting by Robert Spencer is of trees with houses in the background. The sheer volume of leaves bent in the wind nearly obscures the buildings from sight, conveying a strong sense of movement. Spencer is a well-known Pennsylvania Impressionist, a style which is also called the New Hope School or Pennsylvania School and focuses on landscapes.

This painting of the famous Kimberly Crest House and Gardens in Redlands, a city in southern California, was done by Colin Campbell Cooper, Jr. around 1929. Cooper was an American Impressionist renowned for his architectural paintings, though he also painted portraits, interiors, florals, and landscapes.

This drawing is by Frederick Childe Hassam (often referred to as Childe Hassam), an artist usually known for his American Impressionist paintings. The drawing is a loose sketch of the South Lawn and South Portico of the White House. Both the West Wing and East Wing are obscured by trees. Hassam drew on a piece of stationary or letterhead with "The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C." printed in script. Six Hassam pieces are in the White House Collection.

This landscape painting is by noted American Impressionist Frederick Childe Hassam (often referred to as Childe Hassam). The landscape is an early depiction of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill and is a far cry from today's modern-day cityscape. Aside from a few small buildings or homes on the hill, there is minimal development and there is a solitary boat in the water in the foreground. Six Hassam pieces are in the White House Collection.

This seascape by painter Lillie May Nicholson is of a beach with a far-off sea on the horizon. Looking slightly down upon the beach from a hill or dune, a curving footpath forms from the right of the painting and extends down to the shore, giving this painting its name. Two of her landscapes are in the White House Collection.

This painting is by John Henry Twachtman, an American Impressionist painter who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Academie Julian in Paris. He was based from 1886 in Greenwich, Connecticut. The rough landscape captures a house by the water and a long, crooked dock extending out into the water. The titular boat is anchored at the end of the dock.

This painting of the Brooklyn Bridge in winter is by Guy C. Wiggins, an American Impressionist who often painted New York City and its five boroughs. Wiggins' painting captures a narrow, snowy, cityscape of the Brooklyn Bridge looming high over its Brooklyn neighborhood with views of the East River and Manhattan in the distance. Three of his paintings are in the White House Collection. The White House Historical Association provided partial funding for its donation to the White House Collection.

This landscape of the Seine River in France is by renowned French Impressionist Claude Monet. The calm, tranquil depiction of the Seine was a gift of the Kennedy family in memory of President John F. Kennedy. Monet produced a series of paintings of the Seine during a single stretch in 1896-1897.

This seascape painting by noted American Impressionist Frederick Childe Hassam (often referred to as Childe Hassam) is of a small sailboat at sea on a bright day. The entire canvas is filled with the sky or its reflection in the surface of the water, with only the figure of the boat and the horizon line providing any sense of size. Six Hassam pieces are in the White House Collection.

This painting by American Impressionist Robert Lewis Reid is a portrait of a young woman sitting on a porch. In a white, floor-length dress, she leans on a railing on the left, looking out slightly to her right at dense trees and shrubbery. The titular large, blue vase sits upon the tabletop, with the woman's hand carefully cupping the vase's rim. Reid was born in Massachusetts, and is also known for his murals, which are in the Library of Congress and the State House in Boston.