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National Portrait Gallery (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in Washington, DC administered by the Smithsonian Institution. It was spared from demolition by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958 and given to the Smithsonian, which renovated the structure and opened the National Museum of American Art (later renamed the Smithsonian American Art Museum) and National Portrait Gallery there in 1968. It is the namesake for the Gallery Place Washington Metro station, located across the intersection of F and 8th Streets, Northwest. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_Washington,_DC   (229 words)

Bernard Safran: Gallery of TIME Magazine Cover Portraits Thirty-six of the original paintings are now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC; the rest were generally presented to the subject. The images in this gallery are selected from those which were commissioned by TIME but never published. Gallery index: To view a painting, click on the thumbnail image or the title. www.safran-arts.com /timindex.html   (153 words)

Americans: Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC 3 October 2002 - 12 January 2003 News from the National Portrait Gallery in London The portrait tradition in the United States of America is richly textured, like the multi-faceted historical narrative it reflects. www.americansc.org.uk /Online/Americans.htm   (671 words)

Washington, DC--National Cathedral The plan for a national cathedral began in 1792 when the Plan of the Federal City set aside land for a "great church for national purposes." The National Portrait Gallery now occupies that site. The National Cathedral, completed in 1990, is the culmination of a two-century-long plan for a majestic Gothic style cathedral. The cathedral consists of a long narrow rectangular mass, the eight bay nave and the five bay chancel, intersected by a six bay transept. www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc5.htm   (461 words)

National Portrait Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia At least three art galleries are named National Portrait Gallery: This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery   (85 words)

National Museum of American Art / National Portrait Gallery The entrance to the National Portrait Gallery is on G St. The entrance to the National Museum of American Art is on F St. A delightful garden graces the courtyard between the two halves. In the National Portrait Gallery, you will find thousands of portraits both old and new and in a variety of styles - from classic to impressionist. Close to restaurants, hotels, shopping and galleries in the reviving "Old Downtown", these museums are a convenient starting point to begin your visit. www.downtownmap.com /dc/html/mngaa.html   (419 words)

ArtLex on Portraits by Artists Born 1801-1850 Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary, 1878, oil on canvas, 68 x 40 1/2 inches (174 x 101.5 cm), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Portrait of Vallier, 1906 oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm (25 5/8 x 21 1/4 inches), private collection, Venturi 718. Portrait of Claude Monet, 1875, oil on canvas, 33 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches (85 x 60.5 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. www.artlex.com /ArtLex/p/portrait.1801-1850.html   (1290 words)

National Gallery of Art - Upcoming Exhibitions The core drawings of the collection were placed at the National Gallery of Art by Woodner's daughters in 1991, in honor of their father's achievement as a collector. This exhibition celebrates the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the Woodner drawings at the National Gallery and honors the ongoing generosity of Dian and Andrea Woodner, who have already donated many of the core drawings and have augmented the collection with additional gifts. The cleaning of this sketch, which is in the National Gallery's collection, has revealed nothing less than a lost masterpiece under layers of disfiguring 19th-century repaint. www.nga.gov /exhibitions/upcoming.htm   (2982 words)

Patriot Papers With this tour, made possible through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, is sharing the spirit of George Washington with students across America. National Treasure,” an exhibition from the Smithsonian& National Portrait Gallery. Painted in 1796 by artist Gilbert Stuart, the portrait is considered one of the most important visual documents of the founding of our nation. www.georgewashington.si.edu /kids/pp4m_1.html   (428 words)

Sculptors Society of Canada - Member Details She is represented in the collections of the Gallery of the Parliament Buldings, Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, McMaster University, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. In 1949 she won the National Sculpture Society of New York Gold Medal for Portraiture. Holbrook is best known for her fine bronze busts, figures and medallic portraits of numerous Canadians and illustrious contemporaries such as Albert Einstein and Henry Moore. www.cansculpt.org /memberDetails.php?id=61&fn=Elizabeth&ln=Holbrook   (223 words)

Fraser Gallery: Bethesda, MD and Georgetown, Washington, DC Her work has been exhibited in many museums worldwide and is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, the National Archives, Ottawa, the National Galleries of Scotland, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, the Library of Congress, Les Archives Nationales du Quebec, Corcoran Gallery, Phillips Collection and many others. With an opening reception on March 18, 2005 and continuing through April 13, 2005, the Fraser Gallery Georgetown gallery is honored to host the first ever Washington, DC solo exhibition of legendary American photographer Lida Moser, who now lives in retirement in nearby Rockville, Maryland. This will be her first solo exhibition in Washington, DC and it will run from March 18 through April 13, 2005. www.thefrasergallery.com /FraserDC.html   (894 words)

2003-04 Season Announced - Oklahoma City Museum of Art The holiday season will be marked by the opening of George Washington: A National Treasure, organized by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, and the Museum organized exhibition George Washington: Military Leader, Statesman, Legend. The first show features a single work, the full-length portrait of the leader in the final year of his presidency by Gilbert Stuart, recently re-patriated by the National Portrait Gallery with funds from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, which is also supporting its tour. The portrait is accompanied by a wealth of educational material and a program to fund the bussing of students from throughout the state. www.okcartmuseum.com /press/2003season_rel_4_10_03.htm   (512 words)

British Tourist Authority: A celebration of Americans and American history through portraits from the painting and photographic collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Major development work undertaken for the millennium has created a Tudor Gallery displaying the earliest works in the collection and a Balcony Gallery for portraits from the 1960s-1980s. Portraits in all mediums, from oil and watercolour to sculpture and drawings depict famous and infamous British men and women from the Tudors to the present day. www.bta.org.uk /uk/attractions/museums_and_galleries.htm   (316 words)

2/1/2003 - Celebrated Collection Of Presidential Portraits To Be In Atlanta - Travel - Chattanoogan.com The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC is currently closed to the public because of major renovation work. "Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery" features 61 paintings, sculptures, photographs and other renderings, depicting all 42 U.S. presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton. The traveling exhibition is part of "Portrait of a Nation," an initiative in which four major National Portrait Gallery exhibitions are traveling nationally and internationally. www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_31990.asp   (605 words)

National Portrait Gallery Publications: Fine Art Americans Carolyn Kinder Carr is the Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE. From Washington to Warhol, their portraits trace the development of a nation from colony to superpower, and remind us of the individuals who have contributed to its political, cultural and social landscape. www.npg.org.uk /live/pubamerica.asp   (203 words)

Edward Sorel In 1998 the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, devoted several rooms to an exhibition of his caricatures. Other one-man shows include the Graham Gallery and the Davis and Langdale Gallery in New York City, the Susan Conway Gallery in Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Boston, and Galerie Bartsch & Chariau in Munich, Germany. Unauthorized Portraits (Knopf, 1997) is the most recent of several collections of his work. www.thenation.com /directory/bios/edward_sorel   (163 words)

Samuel Francis du Pont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia When communication was cut off with Washington at the start of the Civil War, du Pont took the initiative of sending a fleet to the Chesapeake Bay to protect the landing of Union troops at Annapolis, Maryland. In June of 1861, he was made president of a board in Washington formed to develop a plan of naval operations against the Confederacy. He played a major role in the receiving of the Japanese ambassador that year, accompanying him on his three-month visit to Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia; the trip was a breakthrough for opening Japan to American trade and investment. www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Samuel_Francis_du_Pont   (1786 words)

National Portrait Gallery Washington Dc Garren Scientific Americas: Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC A celebration of Americans and American history through portraits from the painting... Americans: Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC the third-oldest federal building in Washington, DC (after the White House and the Capitol), houses the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum. garren-scientific.com /national-portrait-gallery-washington-dc.htm   (185 words)

Sacha Newley - Four of Sacha Newley's portraits were recently acquired for the permanent collection at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC at The Smithsonian. The painted portrait continues to be vital and relevant because of the intimate relationship between artist and sitter conveyed by paint. The centre canvas, the great full-length portrait, is a study of the strange symbiosis of man and machine, and how, in Newley's words: "The chair is an image both of Reeve's defeat and his heroic determination." The closer, more intimate head-and-shoulder portraits expose the core of Reeve's humanity. www.commissionaportrait.com /artistsportfolio.asp?id=266   (580 words)

Larry Keenan - photos at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 1996 include Allen Ginsberg REBELS: Beat Artists and Poets of the 1950s, was exhibited by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery exhibited REBELS: Beat Artists and Poets of the 1950s. I was asked to come to the opening in Washington, DC by the curator Steven Watson. www.emptymirrorbooks.com /keenan/m1996-2.html   (222 words)

WWW Pop Art: Marisol In 1991 she had an exhibition on her portrait sculptures at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. In 1967 she had an individual show at the Hanover Gallery, London, and was included in the exhibition American Sculpture of the Sixties. In 1969 her work was included in an exhibition of Pop Art at the Hayward Gallery. www.fi.muni.cz /~toms/PopArt/Biographies/marisol.html   (228 words)

Francesca's Photo Leipzig has been featured in numerous one man and group shows at, among others, the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; Gallery Henoch, NYC; and, the New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts. Affiliated with Gallery Henoch, NYC, his works are in numerous permanent collections including the New Jersey State Museum; The Cooper-Hewitt Museum for the Decorative Arts, NYC; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; and The White House Collection, Washington, DC. Leipzig was also the recipient of one of the last-ever individual artist grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in 1995. www.jerseyarts.com /gallery/exhibits/leipzig/leipzig_05.html   (183 words)

National.Portrait.Gallery.html Students visit the portrait gallery and "select" three drawings or paintings which they believe to be particularly illustrative of the effect of light and shadow on the portrayal of character. Students must also prepare a brief 3 to 5 sentence description of why this individual has merited inclusion in the Gallery's collection. Lively and informed discussion of how the artist used light and shadow to create mood they "instinctively" sensed. curry.edschool.virginia.edu /curry/class/Museums/Teacher_Guide/Art/National.Portrait.Gallery.html   (506 words)

Articles from the July 1995 Unification News by Harry Phillips-Sterling, VA The life of Frederick Douglass is the subject of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC which runs through Nov. 19 this year. His loyalty to the party was repaid with appointment first as Marshal for the District of Columbia, later as Recorder of Deeds, and in 1889 as Minister to Haiti. Frederick Bailey (he took the name Douglass for himself later) was born sometime in February 1818 in Talbot County on the eastern shore of Maryland; his mother was a slave. www.tparents.org /UNews/unws9507/f-dgls.htm   (832 words)

Ephemera Press Key Personnel Miller was project director for Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy a touring exhibition and catalogue sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities which traveled to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, the New Orleans Museum of Art and other venues. Romberger's pastels of East Village life have been shown at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Grace Borgenicht Gallery and are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. Romberger and Van Cook are the co-illustrators of the East Village Map. ephemerapress.com /keypersonnel.html   (552 words)

"James Fitzgerald: A Painter's Journey" in Arts on NET OnLine Thanks to the Huberts, Fitzgerald's work is now included in numerous major museums, including the National Portrait Gallery and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the MFA, Boston, and the Portland Museum of Art. This hour-long documentary, narrated by nationally acclaimed storyteller Jay O'Callahan, traces Fitzgerald's early life in Boston, his student days at both the Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and his misadventures aboard the Elizabeth Howard, a Gloucester fishing vessel. Shot on location in Maine, California and Ireland, it is also the story of Fitzgerald's extraordinary friendship with Anne and Edgar Hubert of Dover, MA, who have faithfully promoted the artist's work since his death in 1971. net.unl.edu /artsFeat/jamesfitzgerald.html   (394 words)

ARC Museum :: ARC Approved Ateliers :: Page 7 In 1995, his official portrait of President George Bush was unveiled for the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, DC. He has previously taught at the National Academy of Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Art Students League of New York and has conducted painting seminars at the Gallery of San Juan, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Antonios's work has appeared in the Grand Central Galleries, Five Points Gallery, and the Fleischer Museum, in Phoenix, AZ. artrenewal.org /asp/database/atelier_list.asp?page=7&sort=school&...   (1196 words)

The Collection: Portrait of John Marshall (1755-1835) By William James Hubard (1807-1862)--John Marshall House Seven versions of this portrait exist, including one at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. This portrait, which many viewers find unattractive, depicts John Marshall late in life when the Chief Justice was nearly eighty years old. Hubard, who was born in England and came to America in 1824, was already a well-known regional portrait artist by the mid-1830s. www.apva.org /marshall/collection/ldr_hubard.php   (156 words)

Biography Known for his landscapes, portraits and interiors in watercolor and oil, his work is represented in the permanent collections of several museums including Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum, The El Paso Museum of Art in Texas, and the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Represented by Hammer Galleries in New York City, Clark's recent awards include the William A. Paton Award at the National Academy's 175th Exhibition, as well as the Salzman Award in 2004 and the President's Award in 2003 in the National Arts Club's annual exhibiting members shows in New York City. His work appears in spring 2005 exhibitions at Hammer Galleries in New York City; the Dealey Plaza Museum in Dallas, Texas; the George Orr Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi; the Keyes Gallery in Springfield, Missouri; and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine. www.tclarkart.com /biography.html   (483 words)

ArtLex on Posters Nathaniel Currier (American, 1813-1888), Grand National Democratic Banner, 1844, hand-colored lithograph, 11 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. poster commissioned by USA government, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Used for recruitment during World War I and again during World War II, his popular poster demonstrates the commanding effectiveness of a strong design and simple message. www.artlex.com /ArtLex/p/poster.html   (1152 words)

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