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George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
20th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century

The Rough Rider

Frederick William MacMonnies
Sculpture
1905
Owner: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, National Park Service
President Theodore Roosevelt

President Theodore Roosevelt

Philip Alexius de László
Painting
1908
Owner: American Museum of Natural History
King Edward VII at the Wild West

King Edward VII at the Wild West

Arthur Jule Goodman
Painting
1903
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington at the Battle of Trenton

Spoilum
Painting
before 1900
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Major George Haven Putnam

Susan Watkins
Painting
c. 1900
Owner: Chrysler Museum of Art

General Washington on Horseback, Tipping His Hat

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
19th century
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private collection

Arlo Lund

Arlo Lund
Sculpture
20th century
Owner: State Historical Society of North Dakota
James B. White

James B. White

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th-19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Private Collection

James Garfield

Aaron Dean Fletcher
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: Walter J Morrison III

The Life I Love

Charles S. Stobie
Painting
1903
Owner: Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
19th century

Elvis Presley

Ernest Trino Trova
Collage
20th century
Owner: Ulrich Museum of Art

Thomas Brownrigg Bailey

Cornelius Haly Hankins
Painting
c. 1906
Owner: Mrs. Orman Lanier Kimbrough

George Washington at the Battle of Trenton

Unidentified Artist
Textile
early 20th century
Owner: Private Collection

Passage of the Delaware

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century

Alexander Hamilton

William Ordway Partridge
Sculpture
1908
Owner: Private collection

The Glad Hand

R. L. Bristol
Drawing
1900
Owner: Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Cody Astride his Buffalo Horse

Cody Astride his Buffalo Horse

Byron B. Wolfe
Sculpture
20th century
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum

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