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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

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is rolling out dozens of virtual programs this winter so visitors and families can enjoy all the museum has to offer from the comfort of their own homes.

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

Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery and host of PORTRAITS

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

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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt by Bernard T. Frydrysiak, 1946; Oil on canvas; Ford and Marni Roosevelt

First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt

Neil Simon by David Hume Kennerly, 1986. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Time magazine; © David Hume Kennerly

Neil Simon (1927–2018)

Fannie Hurst by Joseph Margulies, 1929; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; © Estate of Joseph Margulies

Fannie Hurst: Writer, Feminist, Civil Rights Advocate

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

Lotte Lenya / Saul Bolasni / c. 1954 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Lee Boltin

The Legendary Lotte Lenya

Ernest Hemingway / Henry Strater / 1930 / Private collection

Henry Strater’s Portrait of Ernest Hemingway

Young Jewess Arriving at Ellis Island / Lewis Wikes Hine / 1905 / Courtesy Alan Klotz Gallery / Photocollect, Inc. / New York City

Starting at the Source: Lewis Hine and Labor

John Quincy Adams / Philip Haas / 1843

Welcome to the Portrait Gallery, John Quincy Adams

Caption: Zendaya and Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017); credit: Sony

Sylvia Plath’s Appearance in "Spider-Man: Homecoming"

Sarah Weston Seaton with Her Children Augstine and Julia / Charles Bird King / c. 1815 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Bequest of Armida B. Colt

Sarah Weston Seaton and Washington, DC, Around 1815

John Ashbery (Argyle Socks) by Fairfield Porter/ Oil on canvas, 1952/ Collection The Flow Chart Foundation. Courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Portrait of John Ashbery by Fairfeld Porter

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet / Alexander Hay Ritchie, after Francis B. Carpenter / 1866 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Mrs. Chester E. King

Remembering President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

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