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Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Nat Fein
Photograph
1948
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

Babe Ruth

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

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
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

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

Game Called Because of Rain

Norman Rockwell
Painting
1949
Owner: National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

Nat Fein
Photograph
1947
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Eddie Arcaro

Eddie Arcaro

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

"Babe" Didrikson

Harry Warnecke
Photograph
August 13, 1947
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ted Williams

Ted Williams

Harry Warnecke
Photograph
1940
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Carl Ben Eielson

R. Whedon
Sculpture
mid 20th century
Owner: State Historical Society of North Dakota
Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb

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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    • Adams, Wayman Elbridge  21
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    • Avery, Milton Clark  50
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    • 1930s  1614
    • 1950s  876
    • 1960s  176
    • 1970s  84
    • 1980s  38
    • 1990s  63
    • 2000s  16
    • 2010s  1
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    • Paintings  3086
    • Drawings  1538
    • Photographs  907
    • Sculpture  724
    • Exterior views  349
    • Prints  133
    • Miniatures  46
    • Mirrors  32
    • Maps  31
    • Sheet music  16
    • Medals  15
    • Decorative arts  12
    • Documents  8
    • Silhouettes  7
    • Collages (visual works)  6
    • Periodicals  3
    • Mixed media  2
    • Mosaics (visual works)  2
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1810s  3
1820s  3
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1840s  23
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1860s  54
1870s  65
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1890s  93
1900s  146
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1920s  187
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Medals  15
Miniatures  46
Mirrors  32
Mixed media  2
Mosaics (visual works)  2
Paintings  3086
Periodicals  3
Photographs  907
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