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George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1750-1952
Owner: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

The Day I Painted Ike

Norman Rockwell
Unknown
1952
Owner: Norman Rockwell Museum

Texas Triumvirate

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1956
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
Harry S Truman

Harry S Truman

Boris Chaliapin
Painting
1956
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
Dwight David Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower

Thomas Edgar Stephens
Painting
1950
Owner: U.S. Military Academy

It Don't Matter Who's On Second!

William Seymour Sandeson
Drawing
c. 1964
Owner: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The Society of the Cincinnati
Dwight David Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower

Russell Hendrickson
Painting
1955
Owner: Capitol Hill Club

James Frank Dobie

Evett
Sculpture
1955
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Robert Edward Lee

Margaret Whetstone
Sculpture
1950
Owner: Alabama Department of Archives and History

Robert Edward Lee

Edward Virginius Valentine
Sculpture
1959
Owner: Valentine Museum

Rose Tattoo

Al Hirschfeld
Drawing
c. 1951
Owner: Harry Ransom Center
George Washington

George Washington

Vincente Francisco Peralta
Painting
c. 1900-50
Owner: Oakland Museum of California

Colon Eloy Alfaro

Felix George Weihs de Weldon
Sculpture
1952
Owner: Colorado History Museum
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bernard Safran
Painting
1959
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
Herbert Lawrence Block

Herbert Lawrence Block

Aline Fruhauf
Drawing
c. 1949
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Erwin Vollmer
Harry S Truman, Dean Acheson and Louis Johnson

Harry S Truman, Dean Acheson and Louis Johnson

George Tames
Photograph
1950
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Frances O. Tames
Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis

Carl Van Vechten
Photograph
1951 (printed 1983)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
TV Private Eyes

TV Private Eyes

Boris Chaliapin
Painting
1959
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
Harry S Truman

Harry S Truman

Herman Perlman
Drawing
c. 1950
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artist

Henry Lewis Stimson

Paul Howard Manship
Medal
1950
Owner: Minnesota Museum of Art

Theodore Roosevelt

James Earle Fraser
Sculpture
c. 1900-50
Owner: American Museum of Natural History
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ernest Hamlin Baker
Painting
1951
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
George Washington

George Washington

Benjamin T. Gilbert
Sculpture
1957
Owner: Naval Historical Center

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