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"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 ...
The National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum reopened on July 1, 2006. [34] [35] The total cost of the building's renovation was $283 million. In 2007, following its conclusion, Washington Post critic Philip Kennicott called the courtyard a "compelling and peaceful public space". Historic preservationists, he observed, were ...
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 ...
Before that, a portrait was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution. Years following its initial unveiling, the artist of the portrait, Nelson Shanks , revealed he added a subtle shadow on the left-hand side of the painting to reference the Monica Lewinsky scandal and how it was, "a metaphor in that it ...
Dana Tai Soon Burgess (born February 26, 1968) is an American choreographer and dancer. [1] In May 2016 Burgess was named the Smithsonian's first-ever choreographer in residence at the National Portrait Gallery.
The Archives of American Gardens (known colloquially as AAG) is an archive dedicated to preserving documentation and content related to gardens in the United States. Established in 1992, the Archives are located in Washington, D.C. , United States, and are maintained by Smithsonian Gardens , a unit of the Smithsonian Institution .
Seliger has published a number of books, including When They Came to Take My Father: Voices of the Holocaust, Physiognomy, [3] and On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories, [4] and his photographs are included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and ...