sort by:   Sitters  |  Artists Milton Avery Self-portrait Ink on paper, 1938 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (C) 2001 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York James Baldwin Beauford Delaney (1901–1979) Pastel on paper, 1963 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution John Barrymore Alfred J. Frueh (1880–1968) Ink, ink wash, and graphite on illustration board, circa 1909 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the children of Al Frueh Ralph Barton Self-portrait Watercolor and graphite on paperboard mounted on illustration board, circa 1925 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Truman Capote Don Bachardy (born 1934) Graphite on paper, 1964 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Don Bachardy Stokely Carmichael Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) Ink, gouache, and charcoal on paper, circa 1966 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Mary Cassatt Self-portrait Watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper, circa 1880 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Ornette Coleman Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) Graphite on paper, circa 1965 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Elaine de Kooning Trust Hart Crane Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935) Graphite on paper, circa 1923 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Lachaise Foundation Countee Cullen Winold Reiss (1896–1953) Pastel on illustration board, circa 1925 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Lawrence A. Fleischman and Howard Garfinkle with a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts Beauford Delaney Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) Pastel on paper, 1943 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation © 1938 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation W. C. Fields Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975) Graphite on paper, 1937 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © T. H. Benton and R. P. Benton Testamentary Trusts / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY F. Scott Fitzgerald Harrison Fisher (1877–1934) Sanguine conté crayon and white paint on paperboard, 1927 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of his daughter, Mrs. Scottie Smith Zelda Fitzgerald Harrison Fisher (1877–1934) Sanguine conté crayon and white paint on paperboard, 1927 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of her daughter, Mrs. Scottie Smith Paul Haviland Marius de Zayas (1880–1961) Charcoal on paper, circa 1910 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn Jr. Edward Hopper Self-portrait Charcoal on paper, 1903 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Christopher Isherwood Don Bachardy (born 1934) Ink wash and graphite on paper, 1976 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution gift of the Mildred Andrews Fund © Don Bachardy Henry James Cecilia Beaux (1855–1942) Charcoal on paper, 1911 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Robert Kennedy Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) Felt-tip markers over graphite on mat board, 1968 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein Lincoln Kirstein Jamie Wyeth (born 1946) Graphite and crayon on paper, 1965 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Jamie Wyeth Fritz Kreisler Paolo Garretto (1903–1989) Collage of airbrushed gouache and crayon on wood laminate and illustration board, 1933 Original illustration for Vanity Fair, March 1934 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Publications Inc. Jacob Lawrence Self-portrait Ink and gouache over charcoal on paper, circa 1965 and 1996 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Rico Lebrun Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) Ink on paper, 1968 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution John Marin Self-portrait Graphite and charcoal pencil on transparent film, circa 1945 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © 2001 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Agnes Ernst Meyer Marius de Zayas (1880–1961) Pastel over graphite on paper, circa 1912–1913 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Anne Meyer Edna St. Vincent Millay William Zorach (1887–1966) Ink, charcoal, and colored pencil on paper, circa 1923 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Frances Perkins William Henry Cotton (1880–1958) Pastel on illustration board, circa 1935 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Paul Robeson Hugo Gellert (1892–1985) Lithographic crayon and graphite on paper, 1928 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Luther (Bill "Bojangles") Robinson Al Hirschfeld (born 1903) Ink on illustration board, 1939 Original illustration for the New York Herald Tribune, March 19, 1939 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Al Hirschfeld Theodore Roosevelt Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944) Graphite and conté crayon on paper, 1898 Original drawing for Scribner's magazine, January 1899 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Harold Rosenberg Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) Ink wash on laid paper, 1967 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Elaine de Kooning Trust Everett Shinn Self-portrait Pastel on paper, 1901 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution John Steinbeck James Fitzgerald (1899–1971) Charcoal on paper, 1935 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Hubert Joseph Stella Self-portrait Gouache, graphite, metalpoint, watercolor, and crayon on prepared paper, circa 1940 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Mark Strand Philip Pearlstein (born 1924) Watercolor on paper, 1983 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mark and Julia Strand Igor Stravinsky Rico Lebrun (1900–1964) Charcoal on paper, 1947 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Alice B. Toklas Pavel Tchelitchew (1898–1957) Gouache on paper, circa 1926–1928 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution John Twachtman Julian Alden Weir (1852–1919) Charcoal on paper, circa 1895 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Andy Warhol Jamie Wyeth (born 1946) Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on illustration board, 1976 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution gift of Coe Kerr Gallery © Jamie Wyeth Jamie Wyeth Andy Warhol (1928–1987) Graphite on paper, 1976 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © 2001 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York

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