War Portrait Room of National Gallery
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1924
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311, Box 31, Folder 7
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).
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311, Box 31, Folder 7
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1924
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United States
8625B or MAH-8625B
Color: Black and White; Size: 8x10; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print