The following essay is adapted from the 1982 publication Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern: An Exhibition of Paintings from Private Collections in Dallas.

The pre-Hispanic goldwork of Colombia is traditionally classified by archaeological zones, or regions, each with stylistic associations, varying in iconography and technology: Zenú (Sinú) and Tairona in northwestern Colombia; Muisca in the central highlands southeast of Bogotá; and in the southwest, Quimbaya, Calima, Tolima, and Nariño.

This bright, vibrant maritime scene was painted quickly, but the setting is a location Childe Hassam studied for nearly thirty years. Gloucester, Massachusetts was a popular artists' colony in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the 13th century, Marco Polo wrote of the great Seljuk Turkish carpets of Anatolia. This weaving tradition continued even after the decline of the Seljuks and the rise of the Ottomans in the 14th-16th centuries. European scholars, uncertain of the names of the sites of Near and Middle-Eastern carpet manufacture, called them by the names of the artists in whose paintings they appear.