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Gene Kelly

Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photograph
c. 1950
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchase funded by the photography acquisitions endowment established by the Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Memorial Foundation

Dimitri Mitropoulos

Christian Petersen
Drawing
c. 1946
Owner: Iowa State University

Self-Portrait

Erle Loran
Drawing
c. 1945
Owner: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Willem van Hoogstraten, Conductor

Ernst Kassowitz
Drawing
c. 1940-55
Owner: University of Washington
Donald Windham

Donald Windham

Emilio Sánchez
Drawing
c. 1946
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Emilio Sanchez Foundation

Graham Greene

David Low
Drawing
1952 or before
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Alfred Jackson
Painting
1959
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum

Dwight d. Eisenhower

Yoon Suk Won
Painting
early 20th-mid 20th century
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum

Mitchell Jamieson, Artist

Ernst Kassowitz
Drawing
c. 1945-55
Owner: University of Washington

Graham Greene

David Low
Drawing
1952 or before
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Margaret Boroughs Adams, Wife of Wayman Adams

Wayman Elbridge Adams
Painting
c. 1950

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Karl Heinrich Gruppe
Sculpture
c. 1948-50
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum

Ralph K. Bliss

Christian Petersen
Sculpture
c. 1950
Owner: UNLOCATED

Fay Chong, Artist

Ernst Kassowitz
Drawing
c. 1940-50
Owner: University of Washington
Dizzy Gillespie at the bandstand, Newport Jazz Festival, RI

Dizzy Gillespie at the bandstand, Newport Jazz Festival, RI

Lisette Model
Photograph
1954
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Grant Fund for Photography

Paul Rufus Burkholder

Bernard Godwin
Painting
c. 1950
Owner: Carnegie Mellon University

John Steinbeck

Leon Gerardo Luis Quintanilla
Painting
c. 1948
Owner: Private Collection

David Lean

David Low
Drawing
1952 or before
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London
Rodgers & Hammerstein

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Charles J. Thill
Photograph
c. 1950
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Francis A. DiMauro

Self-Portrait

Gertrude Abercrombie
Painting
c. 1950
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of W. R. Valentiner

Enrique E. Montenegro
Painting
20th century
Owner: North Carolina Museum of Art
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ladd Yuhash
Painting
1952
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum

Dimitri Mitropoulos

Christian Petersen
Drawing
c. 1946
Owner: Iowa State University

Eldzier Cortor

Wayne F. Miller
Photograph
c. 1946
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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