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Emma Bellows Walking

George Wesley Bellows
Drawing
c. 1920-30
Owner: Bowdoin College
George Jean Nathan

George Jean Nathan

Doris Ulmann
Photograph
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Mildred Giddings Burrage

Waldo Peirce
Painting
c. 1920-30
Owner: Portland Museum of Art

Blanche Wolf Knopf

Miguel Covarrubias
Drawing
c. 1925
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Edward Stephen Harkness

Albert Herter
Painting
c. 1931
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Alphaeus Philemon Cole

Alphaeus Philemon Cole
Painting
c. 1930
Owner: National Academy of Design
Heywood Broun

Heywood Broun

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Heywood Hale Broun
Al Smith

Al Smith

Herman Perlman
Drawing
c. 1932
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist
Dawn Powell

Dawn Powell

Peggy Bacon
Drawing
c. 1934
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Luis Llane
Drawing
c. 1925
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Blewett Lee

Campbell
Painting
c. 1920-30
Owner: Northwestern University
Clarence Hudson White Self-Portrait

Clarence Hudson White Self-Portrait

Clarence Hudson White
Photograph
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Arthur Twining Hadley

Arthur Twining Hadley

Henry L. Wolff
Painting
c. 1925-30
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Clarence Seward Darrow

Kathleen Wheeler
Sculpture
c. 1927
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Alfred Stieglitz

Peggy Bacon
Drawing
c. 1930
Owner: Arkansas Arts Center
George Arliss

George Arliss

Henry Major
Drawing
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Ludwig Lewisohn

Ludwig Lewisohn

Adolf Arthur Dehn
Drawing
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

Carl Wolf
Photograph
c. 1927
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Carmel White Snow

Carmel White Snow

Sir Cecil Beaton
Photograph
c. 1928
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Henry Travers and Lyn Fontanne

Miguel Covarrubias
Drawing
c. 1927
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

William Auerbach-Levy
Print
c. 1925
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Charles Spurgeon Johnson

Charles Spurgeon Johnson

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
Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

William Auerbach-Levy
Drawing
c. 1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Joseph Horace Drake, Sr.

Leon Alexander Makielski
Painting
c. 1920-30
Owner: University of Michigan

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