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Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection 
 Twenty portraits with brief biographical and artist information from a 1944 exhibition, "Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin." The exhibit was organized with the "express goal of reversing racial intolerance, ignorance and bigotry by illustrating the accomplishments of contemporary African Americans." It opened at the Smithsonian Institution and then toured the United States for ten years. The works are now in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Feb 1, 2005 National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery was "founded in 1856 to collect the likenesses of famous British men and women." The site contains a database of images and descriptions of the Gallery's "paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and photographs." Searchable by sitter, artist, name of portrait, and more. Also features news, a history of the Gallery, online exhibits, and resources for teachers and students. http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php Topics: Museums, Museums by Place, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Sep 15, 2009 Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs From the National Portrait Gallery
An online gallery of "photographs of some of twentieth century America's famous and influential women." Brief biographical portraits accompany photos of Helen Keller, Maya Lin, Dorothy Day, Julia Child, and many other women. Site also features transcripts and audio clips about biographical moments in portrait photography and photographic portraiture styles. http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/woot/ Topics: Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated May 5, 2004 Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery: A Virtual Tour
This site is a virtual tour of all of Matthew Brady's photographs in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, taken throughout the 1800s. Also provides his Carte de Visite Album ; the Making of a Photograph ; a Brady biography; a Technical Glossary , with explanations of a daguerreotype, ambrotype, and other aspects of photography; and an Index of Sitters , each with a short biography. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/gallery.html Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Feb 20, 2003 Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio
Website companion to a 1997 exhibit of a 1929 "portfolio of vividly colored lithographs titled 'Le Tumulte Noir' ('The Black Craze') which captured the exuberant jazz music and dance that dazzled Paris" when Josephine Baker and her troupe, La Revue Négre, performed in Paris in the mid-1920s. Includes historical background and images of 14 lithographs, which are a "marvelous achievement of Art Deco graphic design." From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/noir/ Topics: Schools of Art Last updated Mar 2, 2006 Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s
This exhibit explores the innovative works of American painters and poets following the end of World War II. The site features essays about each of these groups, with discussions about painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko; and poets from "four overlapping constellations: the Beat Generation, the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets." Also includes selected images. From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/ Topics: Poetry, Schools of Art Last updated Mar 20, 2006 Picturing Business in America: Hedcuts in the Wall Street Journal
This exhibit "explores the development, the technique, and the implications" of "The Wall Street Journal's distinctive portrait heads, known as 'hedcuts' or 'dot-drawings.'" Features examples of hedcuts of business leaders and the context in which the portraits ran in The Wall Street Journal, details about the process of creating the hedcut, and a section of hedcuts of women (such as Oprah Winfrey and Mary Kay Ash). From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/journal/ Topics: Art, Notable People Last updated Apr 18, 2006 Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century
"This exhibition is a retrospective look at the man and his portraiture, whose progressive ideas about social justice, representative democracy, and America's role as a world leader have significantly shaped our national character." Features a chronology of the public career of Roosevelt, and annotated images of artwork of Roosevelt as a Rough Rider, U.S. president, big game hunter, and in other situations. From the National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/roosevelt/ Topics: Presidents by Name Last updated Oct 23, 2006 Josephine Baker: Image and Icon
"In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Baker’s birth [in 1906], the exhibition explores the development of her image, first as an exotic phenomenon in a mid-1920s Paris that was infatuated with African-American culture, then as a glamorous cabaret star and finally as a Civil Rights advocate." This slideshow features images of Baker accompanied by audio of the "Jubilee Stomp" by Duke Ellington. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/baker/slideshow/slideshow.html Topics: Black Resources, Notable People: Women Last updated Mar 5, 2007 Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits
Companion to the 2007-2008 inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American History and Culture with "images ... selected from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The theme, African American resistance across 150 years of United States history, was inspired by the words of Henry Highland Garnet, an abolitionist and clergyman." The gallery of portraits includes Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Josephine Baker, and Malcolm X. From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/motto/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Jan 23, 2008 The National Portrait Gallery: Hall of Presidents
Portraits of past U.S. presidents held and exhibited in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Features brief background about each president and about the portrait. Includes multiple portraits of selected presidents. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hall2/ Topics: The United States Presidency Last updated Jan 2, 2008 Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places
Companion to an exhibit of artwork related to American writer Edith Wharton. Provides an overview of her fiction and nonfiction writings and annotated images of works such as of Edith Jones (Wharton) at ages 5 and nineteen, friend Theodore Roosevelt, fellow writers Henry James and Sinclair Lewis, and the arch in Washington Square, New York, which is mentioned in her writings. From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/ Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women Last updated Jan 17, 2008 The Presidency and the Cold War
"To a large extent, the history of the Cold War in America revolves around the ten presidents who served from World War II to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union. This exhibition highlights how those presidents shaped or reacted to events during this era." View sections on the presidents: Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. From the National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/coldwar/index.html Topics: History, The United States Presidency Last updated Sep 23, 2008 Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture
This exhibit approaches "hip hop culture through the lens of portraiture," presenting photography, painting, graffiti art, film, poetry, and installation art. Features images from the 2008 physical exhibit, audio of interviews with the artists and of the making of the graffiti mural in the exhibit, and a place for users to submit their own hip hop portraits. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/ Topics: Musical Genres Last updated Feb 20, 2008 Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture
This "exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery's collections examines how a famous face can enhance a poster, and, conversely, how posters have defined reputations of prominent Americans." Browse exhibit sections (such as "Export of American Culture"), view an audio slide slow, and read an exhibition introduction and a blog entry about the exhibition. From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/ballyhoo/ Topics: Art Last updated Sep 30, 2008 Edward Steichen Portraits
Companion to an exhibit of photos by Edward Steichen, "the man Vanity Fair called [in 1923] 'the greatest of living portrait photographers.'" Features selected images from the exhibit including annotated photos of John Pierpont Morgan, John Barrymore, Charlie Chaplin, George Gershwin, Willa Cather, Fred Astaire, and Paul Robeson. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/steichen/ Topics: Photography Last updated Sep 3, 2008 Four Indian Kings
Online companion to a 2008-2009 exhibit in honor of "the 225th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution. To commemorate this event, the National Portrait Gallery is showing the earliest surviving full-length oil portraits of North American Native people painted from life." Includes an introductory essay and small slide show. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://npg.si.edu/exhibit/kings/slideshow/kings.htm Topics: Government, Notable People, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Dec 16, 2008 One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
Companion to a 2008/09 exhibition that "concentrates on presidential portraits to show the changing face that Abraham Lincoln presented to the world as he led the fight for the Union." Includes photos, paintings, and prints of Lincoln before he became president and during the Civil War, and of selected Lincoln contemporaries. Also includes an interview with a historian on topics such as the Lincoln death masks. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/lincoln/ Topics: Presidents by Name Last updated Jan 29, 2009 Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers
Companion to a 2008/2009 exhibit about 19th century jewelry that incorporated photographic portraits. "The evocative portraits preserved in photographic jewelry are rarely attributable to specific makers. ... [M]any of the nineteenth-century's major photographic artists offered these pieces." View images of selected bracelets, earrings, and pendants, and background about photographers. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/jewels/ Topics: Fashion, Photography Last updated Jan 26, 2009 National Portrait Gallery: Face to Face
This blog reports news and events related to the National Portrait Gallery. Topics include the gallery's January 2008 acquisition of "the portrait that came to symbolize the historic campaign of President-elect Barack Obama . ... [which was] created by Los Angeles artist Shepard Fairey," links to photos of Elvis Presley (for his January 8 birthday), and photos of Abraham Lincoln. From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/ Topics: Blogs & Podcasts by Subject Last updated Jan 12, 2009 Presidents in Waiting
This exhibit focuses on the 14 U.S. vice presidents who became president though election, resignation of a president, or other means. Features essays about and images of the vice presidents who became presidents, and video interviews with four living vice presidents -- Dick Cheney, George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, and Walter Mondale -- on what it is like to be a "president in waiting." From the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/VicePres/ Topics: The United States Presidency Last updated May 13, 2009 Searching for Shakespeare
Companion to a 2006 exhibit exploring alleged portraits of William Shakespeare. As of 2006, there existed "no certain lifetime portrait of England's most famous poet and playwright." The "related sitters" section includes images of selected paintings and sculptures from the exhibit. Also includes a Shakespeare quiz, with related portraits. From the National Portrait Gallery, London. http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/searching-for-shakespeare.php Topics: Literature & Books Last updated Mar 16, 2009 |
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