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This record is part of the Catalog of American Portraits, a research archive of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to reproduce images (if available) must be obtained from the portrait owner. Unfortunately, the Catalog of American Portraits does not always have current ownership information.
"To found a portrait gallery in the 1960s," Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley said, was difficult because "American portraiture has already reached the zenith in price and the nadir in supply." [1] Ripley, whose leadership of the Smithsonian began in 1964, was a strong supporter of the new museum, however. He encouraged the museum's ...
In addition, Bush's portrait for the National Portrait Gallery was uncharacteristically released several weeks before his administration had ended. Painted by Robert A. Anderson, it was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on December 19, 2008.
Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888–1964 [1]) was an American painter, best known for a series of paintings of prominent African Americans for the exhibition “Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin” that, with those by Laura Wheeler Waring and under the Harmon Foundation, toured the United States from 1944 to 1954.
Oprah Winfrey is the latest icon to be honored with a painting in the National Portrait Gallery.. Joining the ranks of presidents, scientists, film stars and more, Winfrey's portrait in her honor ...
Portrait of Rosalba Peale (1820), Smithsonian American Art Museum Portrait of Edward Shippen Burd of Philadelphia (c. 1806 –1808) The following is a partial list of collections holding works by Rembrandt Peale: Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution
The photos were soon processed, but one was not finished, probably because it had been overexposed. Lincoln requested that copies of the other be delivered to two Pittsfield friends the following day. [28] October 11, 1858: William Judkins Thomson [29] Monmouth, Illinois: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Mark Wagner (born 1976) is an American artist best known for meticulous collages made of United States banknotes, such as the portrait of Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke, composed exclusively of one-dollar bills, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. [1]