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Fredric March

Fredric March

Georg
Print
c. 1932
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
George Clinton Densmore Odell

George Clinton Densmore Odell

Anna Richards Brewster
Painting
c. 1930
Owner: Columbia University, Art Properties
John Jacob Niles

John Jacob Niles

Doris Ulmann
Photograph
c. 1931
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Barry Bingham, Sr.
Roy A. Young

Roy A. Young

David Long Cleeland II
Drawing
c. 1929
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
William Auerbach-Levy Self-Portrait

William Auerbach-Levy Self-Portrait

William Auerbach-Levy
Drawing
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Le Baron Russell Briggs

Frederic Warren Allen
Sculpture
c. 1920-36
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection
John Drew

John Drew

Alfred J. Frueh
Sculpture
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the children of Al Frueh - Barbara Frueh Bornemann, Robert Frueh, and Alfred Frueh, Jr.
Edward Matthews

Edward Matthews

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
c. 1934
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Josephine Baker Doll Face Maquette

Unidentified Maker
Sculpture
late 1920s
Owner: Nathalie Elmaleh and Laurent Teboul
Ely and Josephine Dillon Culbertson

Ely and Josephine Dillon Culbertson

Nikol Schattenstein
Painting
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen

Henry J. McKeon
Photograph
c. 1927
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

T. S. Eliot

Wyndham Lewis
Drawing
1925
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Maggie Lena Mitchell Walker

Maggie Lena Mitchell Walker

P. Beneduce
Sculpture
c. 1934
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Well, She Won't Always be a Baby

Roland Keith Young
Drawing
c. 1925
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer

Winold Reiss
Drawing
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchase funded by Lawrence A. Fleischman and Howard Garfinkle with a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Wedgwood and Sons
Sculpture
c. 1930
Owner: Buten Museum of Wedgwood (closed 1988)

Wanda Hazel Gag

Wanda Hazel Gag
Drawing
c. 1920-30
Owner: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Theodore Van Soelen

Theodore Van Soelen

Theodore Van Soelen
Painting
c. 1933
Owner: National Academy of Design
Carl Van Vechten

Carl Van Vechten

Miguel Covarrubias
Drawing
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Walker Evans Self-Portrait

Walker Evans Self-Portrait

Walker Evans
Photograph
c. 1934
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

William Patterson
Painting
c. 1925
Owner: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Gaston Lachaise (self-portrait)

Gaston Lachaise
Drawing
c. 1928
Owner: Lachaise Foundation
Ernest Hemingway and Son

Ernest Hemingway and Son

Man Ray
Photograph
c. 1926
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Paul Trebilcock

Paul Trebilcock

Paul Trebilcock
Painting
c. 1932
Owner: National Academy of Design

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