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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
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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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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

January 11th, 2018, 2:39PM
/ BY Leslie Ureña
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

November 15th, 2017, 1:36PM
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