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      Archives on View: National Portrait Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition

      • Date: September 7, 2017
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. Ahead of next year’s festivities, NPG unveiled an exhibition commemorating its May 1968 opening. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) provided several pieces for this gallery, including a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication speech on May 3rd. Check out the full

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Taína Caragol

      • Date: February 7, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Curator of Latino art, Dr. Taína Caragol, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, aspires to: "My goal at the Portrait Gallery has been to make sure the contributions of Latinos to U.S. history are properly represented in the museum." #Groundbreaker

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    5. View of the courtyard at the center of the Freer Gallery. A working fountain is in view.

      The World Is Yours: Freer Gallery of Art

      • Date: April 15, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours about the Freer Gallery of Art.

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    7. Worn portrait of man sitting cross-legged in wooden chair next to a table with a lamp and books.

      Link Love: 10/13/2017

      • Date: October 13, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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    9. Remembering the Reopening of Two Smithsonian Museums

      • Date: July 1, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.

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    11. Getty Image Used in Game of Thrones Recap of Season 6, Episode 1.

      Link Love: 5/20/2016

      • Date: May 20, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: SPOILER ALERT! The Getty Museum is summarizing Game of Thrones episodes each Monday on Tumblr. (via Mental Floss)The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has openly released their patent and trademark datasets to developers. (via Info Docket)Daunting - "Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years." (via Atlantic)The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery now has a

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      Link Love: 2/9/2018

      • Date: February 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian Books is publishing a pocket-sized version of "Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours," a 19th-century guide to color for artists, scientists, naturalists, and anthropologists. [via Colossal]The boundary of our known universe has expanded; a population of planets was discovered outside the Milky Way. [via WAPO]The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's director, Kim

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    15. Lansdowne Portrait of George Washington at National Portrait Gallery

      Sneak Peek 2/18/2019

      • Date: February 18, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: National Portrait Gallery press conference prior to opening, with the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington in view, OPA-1336-07.

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    17. Black and white photo of older caucasian woman with short hair.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Outwin Boochever

      • Date: July 11, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker

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    19. Woman with grey hair with blue graphic and text layered on top.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Brandon Fortune

      • Date: May 2, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Brandon Fortune, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, organized the first two Outwin Boochever Portrait Competitions and researches women portraitists of the later nineteenth century. #Groundbreaker

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    21. Portrait of woman smiling with graphic in blue with white text.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dorothy Moss

      • Date: March 7, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Curator of painting & sculpture, Dr. Dorothy Moss, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, directs the triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, and curates the museum’s first-ever performance art series, IDENTIFY. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Colorful painting of African American woman in red dress.

      Link Love: 5/18/2018

      • Date: May 18, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the African American woman whose cells were unknowingly contributed to over 10,000 medical patents, aiding research and benefiting patients with polio, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and other conditions. [via Smithsonian

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