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Charles Sheeler

John White Alexander

Chester Beach

Charles Henry Caffin

Alexander Calder

Photograph of Rhys Caparn with cat in her studio

William Merritt Chase

Frederic Edwin Church and Theodore Winthrop

Arthur B. Davies

Adolf Dehn

Edith Emerson

Juliana Force

Charles Lang Freer

Marsden Hartley

William Ivins

William H. Johnson

Photograph of Frida Kahlo at her home in Coyoacan, Mexico

Dorothy Liebes

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his daughter, Edith

Willard L. Metcalf

Nickolas Muray

Triptych of Eadweard Muybridge

Louise Nevelson

Georgia O'Keeffe

Gottardo Piazzoni

Horace Pippin

Henry Ernest Schnakenberg

Jessie Willcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green

Russell Smith

Russell Smith, Priscilla Smith, daughter Mary Smith and an unidentified woman.

Carl Van Vechten

Elihu Vedder

John Quincy Adams Ward in his studio

Light abstraction

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