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Carl Laemmle

Carl Laemmle

Fred Hartsook
Photograph
c. 1915
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of the Jewish American History Fund, supported by Rabbi Amy and Gary Perlin.
Dolores Del Rio

Dolores Del Rio

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1923
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Robert Hunter, Esq) 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.

Andrew Mellon

Augustus Edwin John
Painting
c. 1924
Owner: Yale Center for British Art

Harriet Monroe

Eva Lawrence Watson-Schutze
Photograph
c. 1920
Owner: University of Chicago

Portrait of Anne Morgan

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1915-25
Owner: Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt
Julius Fleischmann

Julius Fleischmann

Frederick William Wright
Painting
c. 1920-25
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Joan Fleischmann Tobin, his granddaughter

Francis Guerin Lloyd

William Merritt Chase
Painting
c. 1915
Owner: Private collection

Alla Nazimova

Clara Tice
Drawing
c. 1916
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Alfred Ernest Hamill

Cecil Clark Davis
Painting
c. 1920
Owner: Private Collection

Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Elie Nadelman
Drawing
c. 1919
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Betty Compson

Al Hirschfeld
Drawing
c. 1923
Owner: The Al Hirschfeld Foundation
Gilbert Roland

Gilbert Roland

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1922
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Robert Hunter, Esq) 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.

Ernest Hemingway at the Cafe du Dome in Paris

Jules Pascin
Drawing
c. 1922
Owner: Mr. James Moody

Sketch for the head of Robert Morris Momument, Philadelphia

Paul Wayland Bartlett
Sculpture
c. 1916-25
Owner: Tudor Place Foundation, Inc.

Scofield Thayer

Edward Estlin Cummings
Drawing
c. 1924
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anita Brenner

Jean Charlot
Drawing
c. 1924-26
Owner: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu

National Winter Garden Burlesque I-Jack Shargel

Edward Estlin Cummings
Drawing
c. 1920
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woodrow Wilson

Samuel Johnson Woolf
Drawing
c. 1912-24
Owner: Woman's National Democratic Club
Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1920
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Robert Hunter, Esq.) 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.

Ezra Pound

Wyndham Lewis
Drawing
1920
Owner: Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Winston Churchill

Ambrose McEvoy
Painting
c. 1915
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Van Franklin Garrett

Adele Williams
Painting
c. 1921
Owner: College of William & Mary

Scofield Thayer, James Sibley Watson, Jr., and Gilbert Seldes

Edward Estlin Cummings
Drawing
c. 1920
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Sterling

Ralph W. Stackpole
Sculpture
early 20th century
Owner: Dispersed Art Collection, University of California Berkeley

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