This landscape by Frederic Edwin Church was completed in 1848. The painting captures a stream or river in Rutland, Vermont. The stream flows over a small waterfall with a fisherman on the distant left bank and a sawmill on the right. Church was a significant figure in the Hudson River School, being taught by the founder, Thomas Cole. This painting was acquired for the White House Collection by the White House Historical Association in 1976.

This painting of Lake Champlain was done by A. H. Wyant (often known as Alexander Helwig Wyant) in the late 19th century. The shores of Lake Champlain border New York, Vermont, and Quebec, Canada. Wyant was an American landscape painter active in upstate New York and followed the tradition of the Hudson River School.