In this sense, portraiture has always been closely tied to influence: it determines who is made visible, who is remembered, ...

Kameron Neal Receives $25,000 and New Commission as First-Prize Winner of the National Triennial Gabrielle Obusek The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist ...

Perhaps I should have heeded the warning of John Singer Sargent. He was the greatest portrait painter of the late 1800s Gilded Age, and one of the most revered of all times, but Sargent was only in ...

At the unveiling of Oprah Winfrey’s new portrait at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday, she recalled a story about her grandmother once instructing her to boil clothes outside to ...

For more than 150 years, Supreme Court justices have gathered for a portrait when a new court forms, sitting for dozens of remarkably similar photos that unfurl a history of the judicial branch dating ...

“James Baldwin” by Beauford Delaney, pastel on paper, 1963. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission ...

It is the first official painted portrait of Frederik since he became King following Queen Margrethe’s abdication.

Peter Hurd's famous portrait of Lyndon Baines Johnson National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution When Barack Obama unveiled his official presidential portrait at the Smithsonian National ...