War Portrait Room of National Gallery

ID: 8625B or MAH-8625B

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1924

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311, Box 31, Folder 7

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Summary

War Portrait Room, 1924, located on the second floor of the National Gallery of Art (NGA), now the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), in the new United States National Museum (USNM) building, now the Natural History Building (NHB). The National Art Commission had been developed to commission American artists to create a pictorial record of World War I through portraits of leaders from America and Allied Nations. The 20 portraits that resulted formed the core of what became the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).

Subject

  • Smithsonian Gallery of Art
  • National Collection of Fine Arts
  • National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian
  • National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
  • United States National Museum
  • Natural History Building

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311, Box 31, Folder 7

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1924

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • WW I
  • Art
  • World War, 1914-1918
  • Art, American
  • Exhibitions
  • Portraits
  • National Art Commission
  • Artists
  • Commissions
  • Art--Exhibitions
  • Art--United States

Place

United States

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

8625B or MAH-8625B

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8x10; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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