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Contract for the Portrait of Rick West

West's portrait contract

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Portrait Cost Indian Museum $48,500
Article | W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself.
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