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Shaker Dancers

Shaker Dancers

Silhouette
1977
National Portrait Gallery
Nel Laughon Helen Laughon
Shaker Dancers

Shaker Dancers

Silhouette
1977
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Nel Laughon Helen Laughon
Jacques Houtmann

Jacques Houtmann

Silhouette
1978
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Nel Laughon Helen Laughon
Ken Michaelsen

Ken Michaelsen

Silhouette
1979
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Nel Laughon Helen Laughon
Ayatollah Khomeini

Ayatollah Khomeini

Painting
1979
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Birney Lettick
Ian Smith

Ian Smith

Painting
1976
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Robert M. Peak

Mabel Hampton

Photograph
1978 (printed 1997)
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Joan E. Biren
Walter Mondale

Walter Mondale

Painting
1976-77
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Howard Rogers
What Ails BBC?

What Ails BBC?

Drawing
1974
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Vittorio Fiorucci
Christian Archibald Herter

Christian Archibald Herter

Drawing
c. 1965
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Gardner Cox
John Lord O'Brian

John Lord O'Brian

Drawing
1970
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Gardner Cox
Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Brezhnev

Painting
1970
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Boris Chaliapin
Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

Painting
1979
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Robert Weaver
Mao Tse-tung

Mao Tse-tung

Drawing
1974
National Portrait Gallery
Joseph A. Smith

Bernard Mergendeiler

Drawing
c. 1970
National Portrait Gallery
Jules Ralph Feiffer

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