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William Jackson Palmer

Edgar Britton
Painting
before 1946
Owner: Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

William Jacob Cuppy

Georges Schreiber
Drawing
c. 1928-49
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
George Simon Kaufman

George Simon Kaufman

William Auerbach-Levy
Drawing
c. 1930-40
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

William Somerset Maugham

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1920-40
Owner: Stanford University-Dispersed Art Collection

Alfred Stieglitz

Peggy Bacon
Drawing
1920-46
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Abraham Walkowitz

Ladislas Segy
Painting
c. 1925-44
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

The Artist and His Mother

Arshile Gorky
Painting
c. 1926-36
Owner: Whitney Museum of American Art

Dahlov

William Zorach
Sculpture
1921
Owner: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sam Henry Harris

Sam Henry Harris

William Auerbach-Levy
Drawing
c. 1930-41
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Westley, King and Williams...

Miguel Covarrubias
Painting
1925-42
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Henrietta Szold

William Wachtel
Painting
c. 1920-45
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Mary Stuard Townsend Mason

Violet Oakley
Painting
c. 1920
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

George Washington

Will Perry
Decorative Arts
c. 1920-40
Owner: Mystic Seaport, Inc.

Joseph Wharton

Catherine Morris Wright
Painting
c. 1920-40
Owner: University of Pennsylvania

Self Portrait #28

Vincent Canadé
Painting
c. 1932-42
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Frank Reaugh

Harriet Phillips Grandstaff
Painting
c. 1920-45
Owner: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

Eben Farrington Comins
Painting
c. 1928-48
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States

Isadora Duncan

Abraham Walkowitz
Drawing
c. 1930s
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Theodore Thieme

Forrest F. Stark
Sculpture
c. 1925-49
Owner: Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Karl Ephraim Weston

Augustus Vincent Tack
Painting
1925-45
Owner: Williams College Museum of Art

Simon Nelson Patten

Samuel George Phillips
Painting
c. 1920-40
Owner: University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

Franklin T. Wood
Print
c. 1932-38
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Self-Portrait

Hermon More
Painting
c. 1920-46
Owner: Figge Art Musuem

Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith

Hilda Trevelyan
Painting
c. 1926-46
Owner: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

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