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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced that it will honor four prominent Americans with the prestigious ...
Catriona Kendall, Editor The National Portrait Gallery most notably houses images of every previous president, allowing visitors to reminisce about each political figure as they progress through ...
When planning exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, our historians and curators carefully select what will be displayed in the galleries, considering hundreds of possible images for each ...
Last year, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled a special wall in our galleries, called “Recognize,” as a place to highlight one important person in our collection as chosen by the Portrait ...
It is no surprise, then, that presidential portraiture has been a major collecting concern at the National Portrait Gallery ever since it opened its doors in 1968. The media for presidential imagery ...
When a Mom Needs Help, Does Anyone Show? The Eternal City Abides The National Portrait Gallery in D.C. flubs it in honoring the Covid lockdown’s high priest. A couple of art-news stories are ...