The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers, a historical editing project established in 1974, is an integral part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. The project has collected ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced that it will honor four prominent Americans with the prestigious ...

When planning exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, our historians and curators carefully select what will be displayed in the galleries, considering hundreds of possible images for each ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will add four new portraits to its permanent collection later this year, continuing its tradition of honoring the artistic, cultural, and ...

The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of Lincoln that chart his passage from a fresh-faced Illinois congressman to his grizzled isolation as president. National ...

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are currently members of the National Portrait Gallery host committee. Bezos donated $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution in 2021. Singer Jewel, who said she was in town for a performance ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides ...

Portraits of the honorees, who have made “transformative contributions to the United States,” will be added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Martha S.