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Pvt. Joe Louis Says...

Pvt. Joe Louis Says...

Unidentified Artist
Print
1942
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Nat Fein
Photograph
1948
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
15 Sep 1941
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Henry Armstrong

Charles L. Smith
Painting
1946
Owner: Mrs. Beatrice J. Johnson

Francis Ouimet

Thomas Stevens
Painting
c. 1954
Owner: United States Golf Association
John E. Reardon, Gilbert Ray Hodges, Edward Raymond Fitzgerald, and Charles Bruce Edwards

John E. Reardon, Gilbert Ray Hodges, Edward Raymond Fitzgerald, and Charles Bruce Edwards

Arthur B. Rickerby
Photograph
1949
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Babe Ruth

Alexander Calder
Sculpture
c. 1936
Owner: Calder Foundation

Howard Patterson of the "Harlem Yankees"

Edmund Minor Archer
Painting
1940
Owner: Whitney Museum of American Art

A Left, a Right, and a Left

Joseph Webster Golinkin
Painting
1948
Owner: Spectrum Fine Art Gallery

Sketch of Joe Louis fighting

John Groth
Drawing
1948
Owner: John Groth

Babe Ruth

Philip Evergood
Painting
c. 1939
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Irving Penn
Photograph
1948
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irving Penn

Bobby Jones

Enit Kaufman
Drawing
c. 1944
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Michael Jacobs

Michael Jacobs

William Auerbach-Levy
Drawing
c. 1938
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Joe Louis

Joe Louis

Ruth Yates
Sculpture
c. 1937-49
Owner: Chrysler Museum of Art
Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones

Harold E. Edgerton
Photograph
c. 1936
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Carl Owen Hubbell

Carl Owen Hubbell

Gjon Mili
Photograph
1940
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Harrison Thomson

Harrison Thomson

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
1940
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

"Babe" Didrikson

Harry Warnecke
Photograph
August 13, 1947
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy

Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy

Charles Hoff
Photograph
1940
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Francis Boardman Crowninshield

Andrew Wyeth
Drawing
c. 1940-61
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Erna Kompa Schwartz

Nikol Schattenstein
Painting
1944
Owner: Private Collection
Pete Desjardins Diving

Pete Desjardins Diving

Harold E. Edgerton
Photograph
1940 (printed c. 1980-81)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Kayafas) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014 the Works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C.

John L. Sullivan

Samuel Johnson Woolf
Drawing
1948
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist's daughters, Muriel Woolf Hobson and Dorothy Woolf Ahern

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    • Drawings  1538
    • Photographs  908
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    • Exterior views  349
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    • Maps  31
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