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National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., portrays men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States. Established by an Act of Congress in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, the museum reopened in 2006 after an extensive renovation.
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National Portrait Gallery
NEC-affiliated People Represented in The National Portrait Gallery
Denyce Graves 1988 DP
Full-length portrait painting by Nelson Shanks was included in the exhibition “Gifts to the Nation” in 2007
Coretta Scott King 1954, 1971 hon. DM
In photographs with Martin Luther King, Jr., by Benedict J. Fernandez and Dan Weiner
Sarah Caldwell 1946, 1979 hon. DM
Photographic portrait by Rick Smolan from Time magazine cover photo collection
Leonard Bernstein, day student 1930s
Photographs by Arnold Newman, Ruth Orkin, Irving Penn, Carl Van Vechten; paintings by Rene Robert Bouche and Henry Koerner; caricatures by Al Hirschfeld, David Levine, and Edward Sorel
Eleanor Steber 1938
Portrait sketch by Richard Ely
Alan Hovhaness 1936
Portrait photograph by Naomi Savage
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy 1913
Portrait photograph by Richard Avedon; also in Kennedy family group portrait painting by Bernard Safran
