This landscape painting of Princeton, New Jersey was done by Ellen Axson Wilson, President Woodrow Wilson's first wife. An accomplished artist, she had a studio set up in the third floor of the White House.

This painting of a group of boys is by William Ranney. The four boys are grouped together, almost mimicking the slope of the large, dark cloud behind them. On the left side of the canvas is a brighter sky with a lighthouse visible in the distance. Although Ranney, an American artist, is best known for western scenes, he also painted subjects near his New Jersey studio. This painting is one of his New Jersey-set paintings. An enthusiastic cricket player, he helped begin the New York Cricket Club, which played many of its games at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey.

This painting of a windy beach with rising, sandy dunes is by African-American landscape painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. It is the first painting by an African-American artist acquired for the White House Collection. The painting looks out from the beach towards the ocean, though only small waves cresting on the horizon and two far off sailboats are visible. The dunes and shore take up the majority of the canvas and Tanner actually mixed sand into his pigments to better capture the rough texture. Tanner, whose father was an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister and whose mother had been born into slavery and escaped, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1891 he moved to France to escape racism and the limitations imposed on his race in the United States.