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John Singer Sargent

Sir John Bernard Partridge
Drawing
1925
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Dean Peter Christian Lutkin

Christian Petersen
Sculpture
c. 1931
Owner: Northwestern University
Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky

Miguel Covarrubias
Print
1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library

Southwest Art

John French Sloan
Painting
1920
Owner: Anschutz Collection

Portrait of Miss Anne Morgan

Walter Dean Goldbeck
Painting
c. 1905-25
Owner: Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt

Paul Mellon

Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
Painting
1924
Owner: Yale Center for British Art

The Sculptress

Wayman Elbridge Adams
Painting
early-mid 20th century

J.M. Barrie

Robert Stewart Sherriffs
Drawing
late 1920s
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Jerome in Feather Hat

Jerome Myers
Painting
c. 1930

Spot Red

James Jebusa Shannon
Painting
n.d.a.

Edgar Allan Poe

Christian Petersen
Sculpture
c. 1920-30
Owner: New England Conservatory of Music
Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd

Eugene Kornman
Photograph
1923
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of David Shields

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 20th-late 20th century
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum
Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1927
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Jean-Claude Baker

George Kuhn

Christian Petersen
Sculpture
1923
Owner: UNLOCATED

Dame Edith Sitwell

Wyndham Lewis
Drawing
1921
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Avant la letter (Portrait of Gertrude Stein)

Louis Marcoussis
Print
c. 1927
Owner: University of California, Charles E. Young Research Library

Gertrude Stein, 27, rue de Fleurus

Man Ray
Photograph
1922
Owner: Richard and Ellen Sandor

David Fredenthal

David Fredenthal
Painting
c. 1933
Owner: Private Collection

Mamie Smith

James VanDerZee
Photograph
1923
Owner: Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee

Viscount Arthur Hamilton Lee of Fareham

Philip Alexius de László
Painting
1921
Owner: Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery

Boyd Martin

L. Devalentin
Sculpture
1927
Owner: University of Idaho

Selbstbildnis im Profil (Self-portrait in Profile)

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz
Print
1927
Owner: College of William & Mary
Anna Dunn McSloy

Anna Dunn McSloy

Birgitta Moran Farmer
Painting
early 20th century
Owner: Kathleen Farmer Cooney Kalamarides

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    • United States. Army  438
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    • Frueh, Alfred J.  153
    • Covarrubias, Miguel  126
    • 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
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