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Living Self-Portrait: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Time-Based Media
October 24, 1989
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Audio/Visual Special Collection
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John Leigh Pemberton
Painting
c. 1951-54
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum

Portrait of Henry Clay Frick

John Christen Johansen
Painting
1943
Owner: Private Collection

Lee Krasner

Hans Hofmann
Painting
c. 1938

March 7, 1954: "Relax - he hasn't got to you yet."

Herbert Lawrence Block
Drawing
1954

Double Portrait

Max Beckmann
Painting
1946
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

George Washington (Athenaeum Type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
before 1947
Owner: Private collection

Sir Alec Guinness

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

Self-Portrait of Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella
Drawing
before 1946
Owner: Private Collection
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Yousuf Karsh
Photograph
1948
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh

Robert D. Pryde

Peter Phillippse
Painting
c. 1950
Owner: New Haven Museum
Portrait of Nedenia Marjorie Hutton

Portrait of Nedenia Marjorie Hutton

A. Suzi
Painting
c. 1950
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

Charlotte

Christian Petersen
Drawing
c. 1940
Owner: Iowa State University
Eleanor Roosevelt and Unidentified Woman

Eleanor Roosevelt and Unidentified Woman

Arthur Leipzig
Photograph
c. 1943
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Judith Leipzig in memory of her father Arthur Leipzig

Henry Ford

Baron Arpad de Paszthory
Painting
before 1944
Owner: Private collection

Charlotte and Mary

Christian Petersen
Drawing
c. 1939
Owner: Iowa State University

Andiron (George Washington)

Josephine Lindley
Painting
c. 1937
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Self-Portrait as a Young Man with a Mirror

John N. Robinson
Painting
c. 1940
Owner: Private collection
Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern

George Hurrell
Photograph
c. 1935
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired in part through the generosity of an anonymous donor
J. Barstow Smull

J. Barstow Smull

Raymond Perry Rodgers Neilson
Painting
1941
Owner: New York State Museum

Joop #1

Elaine de Kooning
Painting
1944
Owner: UNLOCATED

Nude Portrait

Earl Cavis Kerkam
Painting
c. 1953
Owner: Yellowstone Art Museum
Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

George Hurrell
Photograph
1930
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired in part through the generosity of an anonymous donor

Graham Greene

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

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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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    • Sheet music  16
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