1981. Thomas Hovenden

Jerusalem the golden, 1892-94. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1982. Julian Alden Weir

The green bodice, 1898. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1983. John Singer Sargent Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer (detail 1)

1984. John Singer Sargent Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer (detail 2)

1985. Edwin Austin Abbey

King Lear, Act I, Scene I, 1898 detail. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1986. Thomas Couture

Soap bubbles, 1859. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1987. Thomas P. Anshutz

A rose, 1907. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1988. Daniel Huntington

Mary Inman, 1844. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1989. Charles Cromwell Ingham

The flower girl, 1846. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1990. Abbott H. Thayer

Young woman, 1898. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1991. Lilian Westcott Hale

1992. Ricardo Brugada y Panizo

The flower garden, 1899

1993. Charles Sprague Pearce

Woman of the directoire, 1851-1914

1994. J.W. Waterhouse Cleopatra Waterhouse. Oil painting. 1888.

1995. Charles Sprague Pearce

In the poppy field, 1851-1914

1996. John Singer Sargent Countess Laura Spinola Nunez del Castillo Sargent. Oil painting. 1896.

1997. John Singer Sargent Miss Helen Duinham Sargent. The woman looks a bit like Uma Thurman to me.

1998. John Singer Sargent

Mrs. Charles E. Inches. Louise Pomeroy, 1887

1999. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Woman and flowers, 1868

2000. Julian Russell Story

Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, 1892