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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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