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Credit: “Left Side Right Side” (still) by Joan Jonas, 1972. Single-channel video (black-and-white, sound), 8:50 min. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © 2020 Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels (left). Alice Walker by Bernard Gotfryd, gelatin silver print, 1976. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © The Bernard Gotfryd Revocable Living Trust (center). Louis Armstrong (detail) by Philippe Halsman, gelatin silver print, 1966 (printed 1998). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Betsy Karel). The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014, the works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C. © Philippe Halsman Archive (right).

Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Announces Virtual Programs for January and February

January 6th, 2021, 10:07AM
/ BY National Portrait Gallery
Portraits from finalists of the 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Courtesy Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

National Portrait Gallery Accepting Entries for Sixth Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

October 5th, 2020, 7:53AM
/ BY National Portrait Gallery staff
Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery and host of PORTRAITS

Museum's "PORTRAITS" podcast examines the stories beyond the canvas

March 30th, 2020, 1:37PM
/ BY National Portrait Gallery staff
Frances Arnold by Katy Grannan. A commission of the National Portrait Gallery. Credit: “Frances Arnold” by Katy Grannan, pigment print, 2018. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. © Katy Grannan.

A Host of Contemporary Luminaries Join the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection

September 23rd, 2019, 4:01PM
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Credit: Kim Sajet, Director of the National Portrait Gallery and host of “PORTRAITS.”

National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet Speaks to a New Podcast Series, PORTRAITS

September 6th, 2019, 2:43PM
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Eleanor Roosevelt by Bernard T. Frydrysiak, 1946; Oil on canvas; Ford and Marni Roosevelt

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt

December 10th, 2018, 12:16PM
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Neil Simon by David Hume Kennerly, 1986. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Time magazine; © David Hume Kennerly

Neil Simon (1927–2018)

August 28th, 2018, 9:12AM
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Fannie Hurst by Joseph Margulies, 1929; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; © Estate of Joseph Margulies

Fannie Hurst: Writer, Feminist, Civil Rights Advocate

August 3rd, 2018, 5:10PM
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Left to right: Dorothy Moss, Brandon Fortune, and Helen Molesworth; Photo: Rachel Burke, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Insitution

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Jury Process

July 31st, 2018, 5:07PM
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Lotte Lenya / Saul Bolasni / c. 1954 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Lee Boltin

The Legendary Lotte Lenya

July 2nd, 2018, 5:05PM
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