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Don Freeman
Drawing
c. 1948
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Lydia Freeman

Earl Cavis Kerkam

Earl Cavis Kerkam
Painting
c. 1947
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Harry Sinclair Lewis

Leonebel Jacobs
Painting
c. 1940-50
Owner: American Academy of Arts and Letters
André Eglevsky

André Eglevsky

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
c. 1945
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Elmer Anderson Carter

Elmer Anderson Carter

Betsy Graves Reyneau
Painting
before 1950
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Harmon Foundation

Homer G. Davisson

Forrest F. Stark
Sculpture
c. 1947

Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.

Alfred Jonniaux
Painting
c. 1948
Owner: University of Virginia
Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
c. 1948
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Joe E. Brown --

Joe E. Brown -- "Courtin' Time"

Norkin
Print
c. 1951
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Rosemary Frank

You're Only a Sort of Thing in...

Charles Louis Goeller
Painting
c. 1945-55
Owner: Newark Museum

Shalom Asch

Jacob Epstein
Sculpture
c. 1940-57
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Joseph Raymond McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy

Ila M. Junod
Painting
c. 1954
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of G. Joseph Minetti and Tierney Minetti Grinavic in memory of Jean Kerr Minetti
John French Sloan

John French Sloan

Isabella Howland
Drawing
c. 1945-50
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Edward Timothy Hurley

Edward Timothy Hurley

Bessie Hoover Wessel
Painting
c. 1948
Owner: National Academy of Design
Judith Anderson

Judith Anderson

Alfred J. Frueh
Drawing
c. 1947
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mimi and Nicholas C. Muray
Eliot Candee Clark

Eliot Candee Clark

Samuel Edmund Oppenheim
Painting
c. 1940-50
Owner: National Academy of Design
Cordell Hull

Cordell Hull

Gregory Stapko
Painting
c. 1945-46
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of the International Business Machines Corporation to the Smithsonian Institution, 1962
Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie

Sid Grossman
Photograph
c. 1946-48
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Tune In Groucho

Tune In Groucho

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1950
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ernest Hamlin Baker
Painting
1951
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Philippe Halsman
Photograph
c. 1945
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of George R. Rinhart
Mitchell Fields

Mitchell Fields

Anatol Filmus
Painting
c. 1946
Owner: National Academy of Design
Milton Berle

Milton Berle

Alfred Bendiner
Drawing
c. 1945
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Alfred Bendiner Foundation
Guy Pene Dubois

Guy Pene Dubois

Isabella Howland
Drawing
c. 1945-50
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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