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PAINTINGS I

PAINTINGS I

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left to right: Harry Truman, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Albert Einstein, Einstein’s wife and cousin, Ella Einstein, Bess Truman,pianist Teddy Wilson. Standing behind the First Lady is Clyde Collins, her (ﬁctional) personal body guard. Explains

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left to right: The three M’s, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West.

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top left: Joel reclining on a couch beneath portraits of himself in the styles of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), and Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) as, clockwise from top right, Kahlo, Modigliani,

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Alludes to Kate’s lifelong sensation of ﬂying in her dreams and the recurring soaring lovers motif in the work of Russian-French painter Marc Chagall (1887–1985).

German-American illusionist Alexander Herrmann (1844–1896) was a leading stage magician a generation before Houdini.

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left to right: Chick Webb, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Glenn Miller, Charlie Christian, Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmie Lunceford, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. All died before the age of 45.

Jazz greats Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

A longtime favorite of Joel, the Brazilian singer and actress achieved international stardom with a string of 1940s Hollywood musicals. Beginning with Down Argentine Way in 1940, Miranda starred in ten ﬁlms in seven years for Twentieth Century-Fox

Scenes from the career of legendary Bronx-born congressman and New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947). from left: with Eleanor Roosevelt on the War Ration Board; reading comics to kids over the radio during the 1945 New York newspa

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