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From Vanderbilt Estate Signed Miller on verso Gouache on board 40 x 30 in. This is a portrait of the artist’s mother, Barbara Whitney Headley. Painted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s granddaughter: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Conner b. 1925 - d. 2009....
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Eugene Alexis Girardet (French, 1853-1907) Eugene Alexis Girardet hailed from a Swiss Huguenot family, with an artist father, Paul Girardet, and artistic siblings. After learning engraving from his father, he studied at École des Beaux-arts and under Jean-Léon Gérôme, who...
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This work was painted at the height of Mahonri’s career, at time when he had become world famous for his passionate and realistic depictions of boxers — works that were collected by Cole Porter, Joseph Pulitzer, and JD Rockfeller,...
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Albert Einstein, in Discussion with Robert Oppenheimer in Office Institute for Advanced Study (1946)by Alfred EisenstaedtLess than a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, NBC collaborated with Albert Einstein to explain to the American public the science behind...
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