Hip Hop artists


RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture

Closing October 26, 2008


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Katherine Hepburn


One Life: KATE, A Centennial Celebration

Closing September 28, 2008


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OPEN: 11:30 am - 7:00 pm

 Four Indian Kings at NPG (special installation)

To commemorate the 225th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris, NPG is showing the earliest surviving full-length oil portraits of North American Native people painted from life.






 Museum Blog

Introducing Face to Face the Portrait Gallery's new weblog dedicated to art, history, and the telling of American lives.



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