Make thousands of new acquaintances! Featuring scientists, statesmen, and film stars, glimpsed through rare nineteenth-century daguerreotypes or year-old digital video, the National Portrait …

The nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery’s mission to tell the American story through …

NPG Mezzanine: 20th and 21st Century Americans 52; NPG, South Gallery 240 30; 20th Century Americans: 1930-1960 26; NPG, South Gallery 321 26; NPG, West Gallery 210 26; 20th …

Opens September 19, 2025 The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present Amy Sherald: American Sublime, the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to …

The nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery's mission to tell the American story through …

Dec 13, 2023 · Oprah Winfrey’s portrait is now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress …

Jun 18, 2021 · The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will extend “The Obama Portraits Tour” through October. The original five-city tour featuring the portraits of former President Barack …

Experience portraiture beyond the frame. Our collections present people of remarkable character and achievement. These Americans—artists, politicians, scientists, inventors, activists, and …

Images:Ernest Hemingway in ambulance driver's uniform/ Ernest Hemingway Collection, JFK Library Ernest Hemingway as "Kid Balzac" / Waldo Peirce /Ernest Hemingway Collection, JFK …

Benjamin Franklin, 1706–1790 | Born Boston, Massachusetts | Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802) | Oil on canvas, c. 1785 | Gift of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation …