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Elihu Vedder
Painting
1856-1923
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

William Ernest Mason

John Tinney McCutcheon
Drawing
c. 1895-1921
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Richard Yates

Albin Polasek
Sculpture
1921
Owner: State of Illinois-Secretary of State
Sterling Price

Sterling Price

Frederick Cleveland Hibbard
Sculpture
c. 1920-30
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts

John Singer Sargent
Painting
1922
Owner: Imperial War Museum

Jean Baptiste Vallé

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Henry Clay

Charles Henry Niehaus
Sculpture
1928
Owner: U.S. Capitol
William Wallace Campbell

William Wallace Campbell

Stephen Seymour Thomas
Painting
early 20th century
Owner: Dispersed Art Collection, University of California Berkeley

Woman Peeling Apples

Archibald J. Motley
Painting
1924
Owner: New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Vartoosh

Arshile Gorky
Painting
1923
Owner: UNLOCATED

Patrick Ronayne Cleburne

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Arkansas History Commission

1st Viscount Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, F.M.

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
1922
Owner: UNLOCATED

Beidermeier chair

Decorative Arts
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Victor Proetz

Dad

Ivan Messenger
Painting
c. 1920-32
Owner: UNLOCATED

Bañista

Raquel Forner
Painting
1928
Owner: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Victor J. Dowling

Victor J. Dowling

F. Hoen
Painting
1928
Owner: State Supreme Court of New York

Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.

Jo Davidson
Sculpture
1928
Owner: U.S. Capitol

A Wedding Couple

Arnold H. Ronnebeck
Sculpture
c. 1924
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Aztec Indian from Tepozotlan, Mexico

Winold Reiss
Drawing
1920
Owner: C.M. Russell Museum
Henry White

Henry White

Harris & Ewing Studio
Photograph
c. 1918
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Aileen Conkey
Le Tumulte Noir/Dancer in Magenta

Le Tumulte Noir/Dancer in Magenta

Paul Colin
Print
1927
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Lady in Red Dress, Girl with a Pout

Arshile Gorky
Painting
1922
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Mary Ann Wignall

Anna Margaretta Archambault
Painting
1920
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Autumn

Walter Ufer
Painting
1920
Owner: Anschutz Collection

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    • United States. Army  438
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    • Frueh, Alfred J.  153
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    • Reiss, Winold  125
    • United States. Navy  98
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    • Unidentified Girl  58
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    • Paintings  3505
    • Drawings  1710
    • Sculpture  1008
    • Photographs  441
    • Prints  369
    • Exterior views  293
    • Miniatures  132
    • Medals  26
    • Silhouettes  20
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