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Publisher: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery 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 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 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 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 |
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