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Odetta

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Bob Willoughby
Photograph
1954 (printed 1997)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Willoughby
Frank Harmon Myers

Frank Harmon Myers

Frank Harmon Myers
Painting
1953?
Owner: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art
Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

George Biddle
Drawing
1956
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Clayton Wolfe

Douglas Warner Gorsline
Painting
1954?
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Swenson at the Typewriter

Andy Warhol
Drawing
c. 1962
Owner: Spencer Museum of Art
Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

René Robert Bouché
Drawing
c. 1954-59
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of CBS, Inc.
How to Paint Good

How to Paint Good

James Montgomery Flagg
Drawing
c. 1950
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Everett Raymond Kinstler

Dwight David Eisenhower

Walker Kirtland Hancock
Medal
1953
Owner: The Henry Ford
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

Robert Frank
Photograph
1958
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Robert Lee Frost

Boris Chaliapin
Painting
1950?
Owner: Dartmouth College

Arthur T. Vanderbilt

Frank McBey
Painting
c. 1947
Owner: New York University School of Law

Carl Gustav Otto Hansen

Johan Conrad Hansen
Painting
c. 1930-50
Owner: Vesterheim, Norwegian-American Museum
Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

Joseph E. Burgess
Painting
1956
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta
Marilyn Flirting

Marilyn Flirting

Philippe Halsman
Photograph
1952 (printed 1981)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Neikrug Photographic Ltd.

George Biddle

William Hunt Diederich
Sculpture
c. 1910-50
Owner: American University

John Ciardi

Peter Kahn
Drawing
1956
Owner: Cornell University

Joseph Story

Phillip Ratner
Drawing
c. 1963
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States
Weegee Self-Portrait

Weegee Self-Portrait

Arthur H. Fellig
Photograph
c. 1955
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Jefferson

Wedgwood and Sons
Sculpture
1951
Owner: Buten Museum of Wedgwood (closed 1988)

Jack Tworkov

Rudolph Burckhardt
Photograph
1953
Owner: ARTnews

Edmund Gerald Brown, Sr.

Irving Resnikoff as "Charles J. Fox"
Painting
c. 1950-65
Owner: California Department of General Services
The President Gets a New Tie

The President Gets a New Tie

Carl Bohnen
Painting
c. 1947
Owner: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum

Gordon Hope Grant

Joseph Margulies
Painting
1950s
Owner: Harold Learner

Hilda Theresa Moses Simms

J. Theodore Johnson
Painting
c. 1940-50
Owner: Minneapolis Institute of Art

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