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Self Portrait - Robert Brackman

Robert Brackman
Painting
c. 1940-65

Ernest Hemingway in Madrid in 1931

Leon Gerardo Luis Quintanilla
Painting
c. 1950s
Owner: Paul Quintanilla

Self Portrait in Studio

Robert Brackman
Painting
c. 1940-65

Dwight D. Eisenhower

James Anthony Wills
Painting
c. 1962
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum

Ike and Mamie

David Immerman
Painting
1962
Owner: Private Collection

Henry Morgan

Al Hirschfeld
Drawing
mid 20th century
Owner: Henry Morgan
Dwight David Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower

Robert Lee Dean Jr.
Sculpture
1969
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nison A. Tregor
Sculpture
1961
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum
Marc Andrew Mitscher

Marc Andrew Mitscher

Albert Ketcham Murray
Painting
mid 20th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of the International Business Machines Corporation to the Smithsonian Institution, 1962
Omar Nelson Bradley

Omar Nelson Bradley

William Sharp
Drawing
c. 1940-61
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

General James Harold Doolittle

William Sharp
Drawing
c. 1940-61
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

General George Smith Patton, Jr.

William Sharp
Drawing
c. 1940-61
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

John Parnell Thomas

Ben Shahn
Drawing
c. 1945-60
Owner: New Jersey State Museum

Frederick Leet Reichert

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1940-69
Owner: Stanford University-Medical Center

Woman in Blue

Elaine de Kooning
Painting
mid 20th century

Col. Nicholas Biddle

Samuel George Phillips
Painting
mid 20th century

Edward J. Jeffries, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1940-60
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum

Portrait of H.K.S. Williams

Serge Ivanoff
Drawing
mid 20th century
Owner: de Young Museum

Study of Female Nude Crouching

Chaim Gross
Drawing
mid 20th century
Owner: de Young Museum

Frank G. Bonelli

Norman Pelman
Painting
c. 1945-60
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

John William Bricker

James W. Grimes
Painting
c. 1950-60
Owner: Ohio Statehouse

Y Laws

Alfred R. Mitchell
Painting
c. 1940-60
Owner: San Diego Historical Society

Walter F. Perkins

Isabella Hunner Parsons
Painting
c. 1940-60
Owner: Johns Hopkins University

Two Seated Women

Franz Kline
Drawing
mid 20th century
Owner: de Young Museum

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