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Elihu Root

Irving Ramsay Wiles
Painting
c. 1895-1920
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
George Inness

George Inness

Franklin C. Courter
Painting
c. 1890-1928
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of August Frazen, 1937
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victor David Brenner
Sculpture
c. 1890-1924
Owner: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

John Casper Branner

Mary Curtis Richardson
Painting
1895-1922
Owner: Stanford University-Dispersed Art Collection

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victor David Brenner
Sculpture
c. 1900-1922
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Isadora Duncan Dancing

Emile Antoine Bourdelle
Drawing
c. 1900-1927
Owner: Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Samuel Putnam Avery

Sculpture
c. 1895-1921
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Isadora Duncan Dancing

Emile Antoine Bourdelle
Drawing
c. 1900-1927
Owner: Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Isabel Lachaise

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Lachaise Foundation
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Victor David Brenner
Sculpture
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Brooklyn Historical Society

Robert E. Lee

Henry Merwin Shrady
Sculpture
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Beatrice Stella Campbell

Mrs. Florence Kate Upton
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: The Players

Robert Fulton

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1900-1920
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Alexander Doyle

Charles Mills
Painting
c. 1895-1920
Owner: The Butler Institute of American Art

Self-Portrait

Carl Teofil Gustavsson Lotave
Painting
1897-1920
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of New Mexico)
Joseph Pennell

Joseph Pennell

Violet Oakley
Drawing
c. 1896-1926
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Violet Oakley Memorial Collection

Paul Griffin

Paul Wayland Bartlett
Sculpture
c. 1890-1925
Owner: Portland Museum of Art

Cora Urquhart Potter

John Singer Sargent
Painting
c. 1890-1925
Owner: James S. Copley Library (closed)

Isadora Duncan Dancing

Emile Antoine Bourdelle
Drawing
c. 1900-1927
Owner: Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant

Herbert Samuel Adams
Sculpture
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Hall of Fame for Great Americans

Edward Hageman

Katherine Scott
Painting
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: Burlington Public Library

Edmund Lincoln Baylies

Vilma Parlaghy
Painting
c. 1890-1924
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Mrs. George Batten

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
c. 1895-c. 1916
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Head of a Girl

Ernest Haskell
Drawing
late 19th-early 20th century
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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