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André Eglevsky

André Eglevsky

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

Reinhold Niebuhr

Enit Kaufman
Drawing
c. 1941-44
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

T. Catesby Jones

Jacques Lipchitz
Sculpture
c. 1940-46
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Elmer Anderson Carter

Elmer Anderson Carter

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

Maxfield Parrish

Gladys Skinner
Sculpture
1941
Owner: Dartmouth College

Chester William Nimitz

Felix George Weihs de Weldon
Sculpture
1973?
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy

Homer G. Davisson

Forrest F. Stark
Sculpture
c. 1947
Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Walt Disney Studios
Drawing
c. 1938
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Miriam and Stuart Reisbord

Marsden Hartley

Jacques Lipchitz
Sculpture
1942?
Owner: Des Moines Art Center

Fred Emerson Clark

Edmund W. Giesbert
Painting
c. 1935-45
Owner: Northwestern University

Peter Hurd

Peter Hurd
Painting
1941
Owner: National Academy of Design

Charles Downing Lay

John F. Flanagan
Sculpture
1945
Owner: National Academy of Design

Louis Finkelstein

Enit Kaufman
Drawing
c. 1935-45
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Oliver Hardy as

Oliver Hardy as "The Pie Man"

Walt Disney Studios
Drawing
c. 1938
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Miriam and Stuart Reisbord
Giovanni Martino

Giovanni Martino

Giovanni Martino
Painting
c. 1943
Owner: National Academy of Design

Philip Livingston

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1932-42
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
John Huston Finley

John Huston Finley

Clara Sipprell
Photograph
c. 1937
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Phyllis Fenner

James Weldon Johnson

Amy Einstein Spingarn
Drawing
c. 1922-42
Owner: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photograph
1947
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
c. 1800-1945
Owner: Private Collection

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

Modie Joseph Spiegel

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1943
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith

Egon C. J. Egone
Photograph
1940
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Stella Egone

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    • Paintings  3086
    • Drawings  1538
    • Photographs  908
    • Sculpture  724
    • Exterior views  349
    • Prints  133
    • Miniatures  46
    • Maps  31
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