Accession 08-105

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of the Director

Exhibition Records, 1993-2000

Descriptive Entry

This accession consists of records documenting the Director's involvement in many aspects of exhibition development at the National Portrait Gallery during the tenure of Alan Maxwell Fern (1982-2000). Exhibitions documented include Drawings by Hugo Gellert; Tete a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson; A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist; Edward Sorel: Unauthorized Portraits; Ernest Hemingway: A Writer in His Time; Hans Namuth: Portraits; Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America; George and Martha Washington Portraits from the Presidential Years; Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen; Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century; Andy Warhol's Flash - November 22, 1963; Faces of TIME: Seventy-Five Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits; George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace; Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places; Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio; and Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection. Materials include loan requests, correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and newspaper clippings.

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Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.

Name

• A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist (Exhibition) (1999-2000: Washington, D.C.)
• Andy Warhol's Flash - November 22, 1963 (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
• Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
• Drawings by Hugo Gellert (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
• Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
• Edward Sorel: Unauthorized Portraits (Exhibition) (1999-2000: Washington, D.C.)
• Ernest Hemingway: A Writer in His Time (Exhibition) (2000: Washington, D.C.)
• Faces of Time: Seventy-Five Years of Time Magazine Cover Portraits (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
• Fern, Alan Maxwell, 1930-
• Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
• George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace (Exhibition) (1997-1998: Washington, D.C.)
• George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
• Hans Namuth: Portraits (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
• Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio (Exhibition) (1997: Washington, D.C.)
• Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)
• Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century (Exhibition) (1998: Washington, D.C.)
• Tête a Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson (Exhibition) (1999: Washington, D.C.)

Subject

• Art museum directors
• Art museums
• Art, American
• Museum exhibits
• Portraits, American

Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection

• Clippings
• Manuscripts

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 08-105, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Office of the Director, Exhibition Records

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