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Fall 2007
Vol. 8, No. 3

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Fall 2007


The Search for the National Portrait Gallery’s Next Director
by Ann Shumard

Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard Opens

Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763–1848

The National Portrait Gallery’s Photography Collection Tells American Stories
by Bethany Morookian Bentley


Historian's Choice: Louis Kaufman
Oil on canvas by Lawrence Lebduska (1896–1966), 1932, gift of the Louis and Annette Kaufman Trust
by Amy Henderson

Curator's Choice: George Grosz
Charcoal and graphite on paper, self-portrait, 1916, the Ruth Bowman and Harry Kahn Twentieth-Century American Self-Portrait Collection
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Herein Hangs a Tale: The Bache Silhouette Book
by Margaret C. S. Christman


Book Review
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein by Martin Duberman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), 736 pp.
by David C. Ward


One Life: KATE—A Centennial Celebration
by Amy Henderson

Online at NPG
by Deboral L. Sisum

NPG Exhibitions

NPG On the Road


Spring/Summer 2007
Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2

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Spring/Summer 2007


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Marc Pachter Bids NPG Adieu
by David C. Ward

Commissioning Fund Established in Honor of Marc Pachter

The National Portrait Gallery
A Poem by Robert Pinsky


Historian's Choice: Carleton Fisk
Oil on cotton duck by Susan Miller-Havens (born 1944), 1993
by Sidney Hart

Curator's Choice: Rachel Carson
Gelatin silver print by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1962
by Frank H. Goodyear III

Art Meets Chemistry and Preserves History
by Julie Heath


Book Review
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006), 851 pp.
by Amy Henderson


Bret Cook in Residence at Duke Ellington School for the Arts
by Jobyl A. Boone

About Face: Seeing Yourself in the NPG

"Face to Face":Beyond the Label
Ian Cooke

NPG Exhibitions

NPG Outreach



Winter 2006–7
Vol. 7, No. 4

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Winter 2006–7

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

“To be or not to be. . . ”: Hamlet, Juliet, and Othello at the National Portrait Gallery
by Ellen Miles

Great Britons: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London
April 27 through September 3, 2007


Harry Benson: Being There
April 27 through September 3, 2007


NPG Presents Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
by Sherri Weil

Portraits in Your Pocket
by Lauren Hassel

Curators's Choice: Edith Gregor Halpert
Oil on canvas by Marguerite Zorach, c. 1930
by Brandon Brame Fortune
Historian's Choice: Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston
Albumen silver print by D. J. Ryan (1837–?), 1870
by James G. Barber
Book Review
David Finley: Quiet Force for America’s Arts
by David A. Doheny
(Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2006), 392 pp.
by Margaret C. S. Christman

Richardson Symposium Convenes Artists and Scholars

Paul Peck Presidential Awards:
Leon Panetta and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.


NPG Exhibitions

NPG Outreach



Fall, 2006
Vol. 7, Nos. 2–3

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Fall 2006


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

A New Daguerreotype: Our Landmark Building
by Ann Shumard

Portrait of an Opening

A "Perfect" Ending to the First Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
Andrea Baer

A Celebration Broadcast in Verse
by David C. Ward

Book Review
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 1,280 pp.
by Sidney Hart

Historian's Choice: Gloria Swanson
Platinum print by Karl Struss, 1919
by Amy Henderson
Editors's Choice: Thomas Tudor Tucker
Chalk on prepared paper by Charles Blathazar Julien Févret de Saint-Memin, 1805, gift of Cynthia Beverly Tucker Kimbrough Barlowe
by Dru Dowdy
NPG at Home

NPG in Demand

Conference on "Walt Whitman, a kosmos"



Spring/Summer, 2006
Vol. 7, No. 1

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Spring/Summer 2006


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

National Portrait Gallery Opening Exhibitions

NPG Presents the Clintons' Portraits

by Bethany Morookian Bentley

Portrait Competition Winners Selected

Moving Daze
Ellen G. Miles

NPG's Reopening Brings New Publications
by Dru Dowdy

Portrait of a MVSEVM
by Anne Collins Goodyear

Book Review
The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner (Nashville, Tennessee: W Publishing Group, 2004), 298 pp.

Sneak a Peek at NPG's New Education Center Programs!



Winter, 2005-6
Vol. 6, No. 4

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Winter 2005-6


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Sneak Peek:  American Origins, 1600–1900
by Ellen Miles
The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
by Bethany Morookian Bentley

2005 Paul Peck Presidential Awards Howard H. Baker Jr. and Hugh Sidey

Americans Now

Portrait Competition Moves Forward

Book Review:
Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
by Mary V. Dearborn (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 382 pp.
by Jennifer Bauman

Curator's Choice: Plenty Coups
Gelatin silver print by Willem Wildschut, c. 1921 gift of Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation, Beatrice and James Taylor
by Frank Goodyear III

Historian's Choice: Charlotte Cushman
Oil on canvas by William Page, 1853
by Frederick S. Voss
Adopt-A-Portrait: Launching a New Initiative
by Sherri Weil

NPG Reopening Exhibitions



Summer/Fall, 2005
Vol. 6, No. 2

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Summer/Fall 2005


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Sneak Peek at America's Presidents
A Preview of Our Grand Reopening, July 2006

Sneak Peek at "The Cold War and the Presidency"
A Preview of Our Grand Reopening, July 2006

Twentieth-Century Sportswomen
by Amy Baskette

Book Review:
Monument Man: Three New Biographies of George Washington
reviewed by Sidney Hart

The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium: Gilbert Stuart

Book Review:
Monument Man: Three New Biographies of George Washington
reviewed by Sidney Hart

Schedules & Information
NPG in Town

Schedules & Information
NPG in Demand


Spring, 2005
Vol. 6, No. 1

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Spring 2005


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Poets and Portraits
by Ellen G. Miles

1855: A Poetic Crossroads
by David C. Ward

Best Face Forward!  Announcing the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006
by Brandon Brame Fortune

Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Eye to Eye
by Frank H. Goodyear III

NPG's Ellen Miles is the 2004 Secretary's Distinguished Research Lecturer

Book Review:
Chronicles: Volume I by Bob Dylan
reviewed by Carol Wyrick

NPG Around Town

Sneak Peek

NPG in Demand


Winter, 2004–05
Vol. 5, No. 4

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Winter 2004–5


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Curator's Choice: The Scottsboro Boys
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Historian's Choice: Henry Laurens
by Magaret C. S. Christman

Garbo Lives!
by Amy Henderson

Book Review:
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of "Birds of America" by William Souder
reviewed by E. Warren Perry Jr.

Book Review:
Portraiture by Shearer West
reviewed by Anne Collins Goodyear

Book Review:
Daniel Boone: An American Life by Michael A. Lofaro
reviewed by Eileen Kim

Paul Peck Presidential Awards

Then & Now: Vacancy on the Court
by Margaret C. S. Christman

NPG Schedules and Information

From the Curator's Bookshelf:
Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic by David C. Ward


Fall, 2004
Vol. 5, No. 3

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Fall 2004


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Time Covers the Candidates
by Sidney Hart

The Editorial Cartoon as Portraiture
by Wendy Wick Reaves

New Acquisitions
by Jessica Hoffman

The American Presidents
by Marc Pachter

Gilbert Stuart: The Exhibition
by Ellen G. Miles

Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin-American Portraits
by Carolyn Kinder Carr

Paul Peck Presidential Initiative


Summer, 2004
Vol. 5, No. 2

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Summer 2004


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Nobel Prizewinners in Science and Medicine
by Anne Collins Goodyear

Book Review:
Arthur Miller: His life and Work
by Martin Gottfried

reviewed by Jessica Hoffman

Book Review:
Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit
by Betsy Harvey Kraft

reviewed by James G. Barber

Curator's Choice: Thomas Edison
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Titian Ramsay Peale: and the Great U.S. South Seas Exploring Expedition
by Sidney Hart

A Moment in American Science
by Ann M. Shumard

Science in Our Lives:
American Research Pioneers

by Carol Wyrick


Spring, 2004
Vol. 5, No. 1

 
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Spring 2004


From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Miguel Covarrubias and Celebrity Caricature
by Wendy Wick Reaves

We Love You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah: Beatlemania Hits America
by Frederick S. Voss

Doing the Beatles for Time
by Frederick S. Voss

Leaping to the West
Max Waldman Photographs Dancers Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov
by Frank H. Goodyear III

Brown v. Board of Education: A Decision that Changed America
by Frederick S. Voss

NPG–London: A Reflection of the People
by Tia Powell Harris

Two Prominent Paintings Much in Demand

Book Review:
Jefferson Davis, Confederate President by Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer reviewed by Michael Fox

Edgar P. Richardson Symposium
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Farewell Fred!


Winter, 2003
Vol. 4, No. 4

 
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Winter 2003

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Pilots, Prophets and Portraits:
Highlights from a Century of Powered Flight

by Anne Collins Goodyear

The Wright Image:
Putting a Face on Inventive Genius

by Frederick S. Voss

The Thrill of Spaceflight
by Roger D. Launius

Book Review:
Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age, by David A. Clary
reviewed by Anne Collins Goodyear

Curator's Choice: Solomon Andrews
by Ann M. Shumard

The National Portrait Gallery Commission: A Brief Look Back
by Margaret C. S. Christman

Charles Lindbergh: Symbol for an Age
by David C. Ward

Paul Peck Presidential Awards


Fall, 2003
Vol. 4, No. 3

 
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Fall 2003

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Designing Woman:
Edith Head in Hollywood

by Amy Henderson

Who's Wearing the Pants?
The Transition from Knee-Breeches to Trousers

by Linda Thrift

Fashion Trends at NPG:
Women's Wear Daily Take Note

by Frederick S. Voss

Director's Circle Purchase:
Henry Clay Portrait Studies


Curator's Choice: Clyde Beatty
by Frank H. Goodyear III

Book Reviews:
* Diana Vreeland by Eleanor Dwight
reviewed by Jennifer O'Keefe

* The Skeptic—A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout
reviewed by John Daniel Reaves


Historian's Choice: Isaac Singer
by Margaret Christman


Summer, 2003
Vol. 4, No. 2

 
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Summer 2003

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

To the Pacific:
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806

by David C. Ward

A Land Deal We Couldn't Pass Up
The Louisiana Purchase

by Frederick S. Voss

Framing the West at Monticello:
Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

by Elizabeth Chew

Book Reviews:
Summer Reading; New Biographies of:
* Billy Wilder
* Benjamin Franklin
* W.E.B. Du Bois


Spring, 2003
Vol. 4, No. 1

 
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Spring 2003

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Alice Neel: Sight and Insight
by Carolyn Kinder Carr

Q & A: Interview with Portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler
Everett Raymond Kinstler and Brandon Brame Fortune

Structure with Soul: Patent Office Building Photo Essay
by Amy R. Boles

Historian's Choice: John Updike
by Frederick S. Voss

Curator's Choice: Willem de Kooning
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Picturing Business in America: Hedcuts in the Wall Street Journal, an Online Exhibition
by Anne Collins Goodyear

Thanks for the Memories:
Bob Hope Hits 100

by Amy Henderson


Winter, 2002
Vol. 3, No. 4

 
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Winter 2002

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

The Bowman–Kahn Collection Twentieth–Century Self–Portraits
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Paul Peck Presidential Awards
by Sidney Hart

Education Events Highlight Winners
by Carol Wyrick

Historian's Choice : Pocahontas
by James G. Barber

Book Review: Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention by Charles M. Joseph
by Eowyn May McHenry

Boochever Gift to Fund National Portrait Competition
by Brandon Brame Fortune and Patrick Madden

Portrait Gallery Sponsors Panel on Presidential Biography
by Frederick Voss

Fall, 2002
Vol. 3, No. 3

 
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Fall 2002

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Of Yeggs and Other Miscreants: Searching the Pinkerton Files
by Frederick S. Voss

WANTED: John Dillinger
by Frank H. Goodyear III

Hollywood Rogues, Rapscallions, and Hard-Hearted Dames
by Amy Henderson

Curator's Choice : John Wilkes Booth
by Ann M. Shumard

Historian's Choice: Benedict Arnold
by Margaret C. S. Christman

New NPG Publications
by Dru Dowdy

NPG Takes Its Educational Initiative Into America's Classroom
by Felice Pulles

Summer, 2002
Vol. 3, No. 2

 
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Summer 2002

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Vouching for Eudora
by Roger Mudd

George Washington: Military Paradox
by George Athan Billias

Curator's Choice : Robert E. Lee
by Frank H. Goodyear III

Historian's Choice : Chester Nimitz
by David C. Ward

Q & A: A Puzzle Solved: An Interview with Senior Historian Fred Voss
by Dru Dowdy

Book Reviews: The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson and Sherman: A Soldier's Life by Lee Kennett
reviewed by Sidney Hart

NPG on the Road

Spring, 2002
Vol. 3, No. 1

 
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Spring 2002

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Conservation of NPG Miniatures
by Ellen G. Miles and Brandon Brame Fortune

Book Review : Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Bandon Brame Fortune

Curator's Choice : Red Cloud and Othniel C. Marsh
by Frank H. Goodyear III

Historian's Choice : Marilyn Monroe
by Frederick S. Voss

Eye Contact: Looking at Twentieth-Century Portraiture
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Exhibiting ARTnews Photographs

Winter, 2001
Vol. 2, No. 4

 
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Winter 2001

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

The Real "Thin Man:" Dashiell Hammett
by Sarah Loffman

The Dark Side of a Literary Light: Dorothy Parker
by Tess Mann

Langston Hughes in Washington, D.C.
by Arnold Rampersad

CivilWar@Smithsonian / New Website
by James G. Barber

The Dolphin and the Fish : Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop
by David C. Ward


Fall, 2001
Vol. 2, No. 3

 
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Fall 2001

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

John Adams by David McCullough
by Sidney Hart

Edward Steichen Images
by Ann Shumard

NPG Pilot Program at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts
by Felice Pulles

NPG Goes International
by Claire Kelly

Q & A: Interview with Douglas Evelyn
Dougals Evelyn and Anne Christensen


Summer, 2001
Vol. 2, No. 2

 
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Summer 2001

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

"Lansdowne Acquisition" George Washington by Gilbert Stuart
by Ellen G. Miles

Strokes of Fortune / Collection Stories
by Margaret C. S. Christman

Behind the Scenes Gifts, Bequests, and Purchases
by Ellen G. Miles

Q & A: Interview with Indian Peace Medals Collector Lloyd Schermer
Lloyd Schermer and Fredrick Voss

From Exhibition to Acquisition
by Beverly J. Cox

Extraordinary Works, Some Generous Friends
by Patrick M. Madden


Spring, 2001
Vol. 2, No. 1

 
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Spring 2001

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Collection Highlights: Celebrating Women
by Brandon Brame Fortune

Q & A: Interview with Barbara Novak
Barbara Novak and Wendy Wick Reaves

Historian's Choice: Maria Callas
by Frederick Voss

Curator's Choice: Jesse Owens
by Ann Shumard

Making Paper Picture Perfect
by Rosemary Fallon and Emily Jacobson

Portrait of an Artist : Sarah Miriam Peale
by Tess Mann


Winter, 2000
Vol. 1, No. 4

 
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Winter 2000

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

"Whose Life Is It Anyhow?"
by Marc Pachter

Then & Now: The Public Life
by Sidney Hart

Appearances are Deceiving: Henry James
by David C. Ward

Curator's Choice: George Washington
by Ellen G. Miles

Q & A: On Writing Biography
Carolyn Carr and David Levering Lewis



Fall, 2000
Vol. 1, No. 3

 
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Fall 2000

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Collecting the Presidents
by Frederick Voss

Then & Now: Presidents' Sons and Vice Presidents
by Sidney Hart

Historian's Choice : Abraham Lincoln
by James G. Barber

Curator's Choice: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
by Brandon Brame Fortune

Acquisitions, Samuel Griffin: Unraveling a Mistaken Identity
by Margaret C. S. Christman

Q & A: Interview with Linda Thrift of the Center for Electronic Research and Outreach Services
Ellen Miles and Linda Thrift


Summer, 2000
Vol. 1, No. 2

 
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Summer 2000

From the Director
by Marc Pachter

Acquisitions : Indian Peace Medals
by Ellen G. Miles

Historian's Choice : Ethel Merman
by Amy Henderson

Curators's Choice : Agnes Ernst Meyer
by Wendy Wick Reaves

Then & Now / Mantle vs. Maris
by Sidney Hart

Q & A: Interview with Peale Family Papers Editor, Sidney Hart
Dru Dowdy and Sidney Hart



Spring, 2000
Vol. 1, No. 1

 
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Spring 2000

From the Director
by Alan Fern

Historian's Choice: Daniel Webster
by Frederick Voss

Curator's Choice: Rosa Parks
by Mary Panzer

Then & Now / Primary Election Upsets, Recent and Past
by Sidney Hart

Q & A: Interview with Curator of Exhibitions Beverly Cox
Beverly Cox and Brandon Fortune

Acquisitions : Thomas Jefferson by Mather Brown and John F. Kennedy by Elaine de Kooning


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