Exploring Themes in American Art: Portraiture |
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| 1. | The Denison Limner (Probably Joseph Steward), Elizabeth Denison, c. 1790 oil on canvas, .854 x .676 m (33 5/8 x 26 5/8 in.) |
| 2. | Winthrop Chandler, Captain Samuel Chandler, c. 1780 oil on canvas, 1.390 x 1.217 m (54 3/4 x 47 7/8 in.) |
| 3. | Gilbert Stuart, Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates), 1793/1794 oil on canvas, .762 x .635 m (30 x 25 in.) |
| 4. | John Singleton Copley, Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch, 1800/1801 oil on canvas, 2.578 x 3.404 m (101 1/2 x 134 in.) |
| 5. | Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Vaughan portrait), 1795 oil on canvas, .730 x .605 m (28 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.) |
| 6. | Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale with a Geranium, 1801 oil on canvas, .714 x .610 m (28 1/8 x 24 in.) |
| 7. | Charles Willson Peale, John Beale Bordley, c. 1770 watercolor on ivory, oval: .035 x .030 m (1 3/8 x 1 1/8 in.) |
| 8. | American 19th Century, Memorial to Nicholas M. S. Catlin, c. 1852 oil on canvas, .984 x .732 m (38 7/8 x 28 13/16 in.) |
| 9. | Thomas Sully, The Coleman Sisters, 1844 oil on canvas, 1.125 x .875 m (44 5/16 x 34 7/16 in.) |
| 10. | Eastman Johnson, The Brown Family, 1869 oil on paper mounted on canvas, .590 x .724 m (23 1/4 x 28 1/2 in.) |
| 11. | Mary Cassatt, Miss Mary Ellison, c. 1880 oil on canvas, .855 x .651 m (33 3/4 x 25 5/8 in.) |
| 12. | John Singer Sargent, Eleanora O'Donnell Iselin (Mrs. Adrian Iselin), 1888 oil on canvas, 1.537 x .930 m (60 1/2 x 36 5/8 in.) |
| 13. | Thomas Eakins, Baby at Play, 1876 oil on canvas, .819 x 1.228 m (32 1/4 x 48 3/8 in.) |
| 14. | Lydia Field Emmet, Olivia, 1911 oil on canvas, 1.626 x 1.029 m (64 x 40 1/2 in.) |
| 15. | Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother, c. 1926/1936 oil on canvas, 1.523 x 1.270 m (60 x 50 in.) |
| 16. | Walt Kuhn, Wisconsin, 1936 oil on canvas, .509 x .408 m (20 x 16 in.) |
| 17. | Andy Warhol, Green Marilyn, 1962 silkscreen on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, .508 x .406 m (20 x 16 in.) |
| 18. | Chuck Close, Fanny/Fingerpainting, 1985 oil on canvas, 2.591 x 2.134 x .063 m (102 x 84 x 2 1/2 in.) |
| 19. | Barkley Leonnard Hendricks, George Jules Taylor, 1972 oil on canvas, 2.323 x 1.530 m (91 1/2 x 60 1/4 in.) |
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