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National Portrait Gallery Announces Jurors and Call for Entries for Next Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

Selected Artworks Will Be Exhibited in Major Exhibition and Tour

madison-hayes | September 26, 2023

Peter Cooper and Family, unidentified daguerreotypist, three-quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied color, c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

“Family Ties: Daguerreotype Portraits” and “Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples”

Two Exhibitions of Early American Photography on View in July

Gabrielle Obusek | July 1, 2022

Septima Poinsette Clark by Brian Lanker, gelatin silver print, 1987. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Partial gift of Lynda Lanker, and museum purchase with the support of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, Agnes Gund, Kate Kelly and George Schweitzer, Lyndon J. Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois, and Mark and Cindy Aron. Copyright Brian Lanker Archive.

“I Dream a World: Selections From Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable Black Women”

An exhibition of portraits by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker.

Gabrielle Obusek | June 21, 2022

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

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

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the second season of its PORTRAITS podcast, which explores the real stories of extraordinary people.

National Portrait Gallery staff | March 30, 2020
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

The National Portrait Gallery announces new commissions and first look at the portraits of 2019's Portrait of a Nation honorees.

Karen Vidangos | September 23, 2019
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