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Diagram of Isolated Moments Forming a Memory (Super Deluxe)

Adam Chapman
Time-Based Media
2008-09
Owner: Catharine Clark Gallery

The Painter

Richard Blow
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jo

Luigi Lucioni
Painting
1931
Owner: Whitney Museum of American Art

Unidentified Portrait

Phineas Staunton
Painting
Owner: UNLOCATED

Creole in a Red Headdress

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Historic New Orleans Collection

Figure Playing a Violin

John Marin
Drawing
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Juan

Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin
Painting
late 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: Stark Museum of Art

Portrait

Tom Talbot
Painting
1971
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of New Mexico)

Ann

Alexander Brook
Painting
1935
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Savage

The Savage

Frederic Remington
Sculpture
1915
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Julie Saul, a gallery owner. Julie wanted to celebrate the life she has lived with her dog, Vicki.

Rob Matthews
Drawing
2010
Owner: Julie Saul

Youth

Theodore Roszak
Painting
20th century
Owner: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

Unidentified Sitter

Robert Henri
Painting
Owner: Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum

Gil, friend. Gil holds a bowl from China where he has traveled and worked extensively teaching English.

Rob Matthews
Drawing
2010
Owner: Gilbert and Rebecca Kerlin

Study of a Head (recto)

Louis Lozowick
Drawing
c. 1970
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Unidentified Portrait

Phineas Staunton
Painting
Owner: UNLOCATED

Unidentified Sitter

Victor Kudelkin
Painting
1989
Owner: Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum

Unidentified Portrait

Phineas Staunton
Painting
Owner: UNLOCATED
Nuri

Nuri

Sara Mack
Painting
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of New Mexico)

Unidentified Sitter

Marisol Escobar
Sculpture
Owner: Firefly Antiques

Luisa

Louise Maloney
Painting
1926
Owner: Phillips Collection

Carrie, friend. Carrie strikes the Jay-Z “HOVA” hand gesture because I relate these modern hip-hop and gang signs to those gestures of allegiance found in Renaissance portraiture.

Rob Matthews
Drawing
2005
Owner: Beth Rudin DeWoody

Unknown Portrait

Unidentified Artist
Painting
Owner: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution

A Corner of the 72nd Street Studio

Louis Comfort Tiffany
Painting
1896
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

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