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Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851 – 1938), Head of a Girl, c. 1895, metalpoint (probably silverpoint) on buff prepared paper
16 1/4 × 14 1/16 (41.2 × 35.7), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.28.

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Otto Dix (German, 1891 – 1969), Old Woman, 1932, metalpoint (probably silverpoint) and graphite(?) on white prepared paper, 22 5/8 × 18 1/2 (57.5 × 47), The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1950, 246.1950 © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY.

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Joseph Stella (American, 1877 – 1946), Self-Portrait, c. 1925, metalpoint (probably silverpoint) and graphite on white prepared paper, 30 3/16 × 22 3/16 (76.7 × 56.4) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund, the Katharine Levin Farrell Fund, the Margaretta S. Hinchman Fund, the Joseph E. Temple Fund, and with funds contributed by Marion Boulton Stroud and Jay R.  Massey, 1988, 1988-21-1 © The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY.

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John Storrs (American, 1885 – 1956), Woman with Her Hand on Her Chin, 1931, metalpoint (probably silverpoint) on white commercially prepared paper, 13 × 8 (33.02 × 20.32), Arkansas Art Center Foundation Collection: Purchased with Gallery Contributions, 1985.055.

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Pavel Tchelitchew (American, 1898 – 1957), Mother and Child, 1938, metalpoint (probably silverpoint) on commercially prepared paper,
12 1/2 × 16 1/16 (31.8 × 40.8), Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Walter C. Baker, 1967, 67.127.4.

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Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941), Some Illusions (Number Two), 2013, silverpoint on white prepared paper, 18 × 24 (45.72 × 60.96), Kravis Collection.

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Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941), Some Illusions (Number Nine), 2013, silverpo,nt and goldpoint on prepared paper, 24 × 18 (60.96 × 45.72), Kravis Collection.

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Susan Schwalb (American, b. 1944), Strata #295, 1998, silver-, gold-, copper-, aluminum-, brass-, and platinumpoint on Video Media paper 24 × 24 (60.96 × 60.96), Eric and Patricia Chafe

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