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Curator Wendy Wick Reaves provides a short introduction and her personal reflections on eighteen of the sixty-four objects in the exhibition, "Eye Contact."


	Milton Avery, 1885–1965 Sally Michael Avery (1902–2003) View and listen


	James Baldwin, 1924–1987 Beauford Delaney (1901–1979) View and listen


	John Barrymore, 1882–1942 Alfred J. Frueh (1880–1968) View and listen


	Truman Capote, 1924–1984 Don Bachardy (born 1934) View and listen


	Mary Cassatt, 1844–1926 Self-portrait View and listen


	Ornette Coleman, born 1930 Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) View and listen


	Hart Crane, 1899–1932 Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935) View and listen


	Stuart Davis, 1892–1964 Self-portrait View and listen


	Beauford Delaney, 1901–1979 Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) View and listen


	John Frederick Finerty II, 1885–1967 Diego Rivera (1886–1957) View and listen


	Alex Katz, born 1927 Self-portrait View and listen


	Robert Kennedy, 1925–1968 Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) View and listen


	Agnes Ernst Meyer, 1887–1970 Marius de Zayas (1880–1961) View and listen


	Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892–1950 William Zorach (1887–1966) View and listen


	Louise Nevelson, 1899–1988 Self-portrait View and listen


	Ethel Rosenberg, 1915–1953 Elizabeth Catlett (born 1919) View and listen


	Oliver Hardy, 1892–1957 Joseph Grant, (1908–2005) View and listen


	Luther (Bill "Bojangles") Robinson, 1878–1949 Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) View and listen

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