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Junius Emery Beal

Carleton Watson Angell
Sculpture
c. 1930-40
Owner: University of Michigan
Mae West

Mae West

Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Photograph
1940
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of David Edward Finley

Aline Fruhauf
Painting
1949
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Self Portrait as a Clown #2

Edgar Britton
Painting
1946
Owner: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Van Johnson

Van Johnson

Philippe Halsman
Photograph
1944
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of George R. Rinhart
Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Irving Penn
Photograph
1948 (printed 1982)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irving Penn
Dwight Eisenhower and Walter O'Malley

Dwight Eisenhower and Walter O'Malley

Osvaldo Salas
Photograph
October 3, 1956
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Samuel D. Buck

J. Bennett
Painting
1861-1945
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle

Jo Davidson
Sculpture
1944
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Dr. Maury P. Leibovitz
Isabel Bishop

Isabel Bishop

Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky
Painting
1941
Owner: National Academy of Design
Joshua Daniel White

Joshua Daniel White

Sid Grossman
Photograph
1946-48
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
William James

William James

William James
Sculpture
c. 1910-46
Owner: Harvard University/ Houghton Library
Alfred Landon and Frank Knox

Alfred Landon and Frank Knox

Charles Johnson Post
Drawing
c. 1936
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Can I Interrupt Boys or is this a Private Matter?

Clifford H. Baldowski
Drawing
c. 1953-61
Owner: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Dwight David Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower

James Anthony Wills
Painting
1969
Owner: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Portrait of Paul Ashbrook

Portrait of Paul Ashbrook

Herman Henry Wessel
Painting
1949
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Anastasia

Ronald William Fordham Searle
Drawing
c. 1953
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Henry David Thoreau

Louis Mayer
Sculpture
1943
Owner: Concord Free Public Library
Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald

Harry Warnecke
Photograph
1947
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Augustus Sutter

John Augustus Sutter

Carlo Taliabue
Sculpture
c. 1939
Owner: California Department of Parks and Recreation

Marian Anderson

Enit Kaufman
Painting
c. 1940
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Man Ray
Photograph
1945
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Virginia M. Zabriskie

Autorretrato

Alfredo Zalce
Painting
1943
Owner: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico

Louis Finkelstein

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

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    • United States. Army  745
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    • Walkowitz, Abraham  153
    • Petersen, Christian  128
    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano  113
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    • Paintings  3086
    • Drawings  1538
    • Photographs  907
    • Sculpture  724
    • Exterior views  349
    • Prints  133
    • Miniatures  46
    • Mirrors  32
    • Maps  31
    • Sheet music  16
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