BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2019)

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2019):

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Description of Pictures: Recent Acquisitions
November 15, 2019 – August 30, 2020
The annual exhibition Recent Acquisitions showcases 25 portraits to recently enter the Portrait Gallery’s renowned collection. Images of individuals who have made an impact in art, business, fashion, media, medicine, music and social justice join more than 23,000 works that recognize individuals who have influenced the history and culture of the United States. Subjects include actors Andy Garcia, Morgan Freeman and Audrey Hepburn, composer Philip Glass and civil rights activist and journalist Ruben Salazar. Portraits of the 2019 American Portrait Gala honorees Frances Arnold, Jeffrey P. Bezos; Earth, Wind & Fire; Lin-Manuel Miranda, Indra Nooyi and Anna Wintour will be on view as part of this exhibition.
Recent Acquisitions is curated by the Portrait Gallery’s team of art historians.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGRE_191115_008.JPG: Recent Acquisitions When the National Portrait Gallery opened to the public in 1968, six years after it was established by Congress, it had fewer than 500 objects in its permanent collection. Today its collection contains more than 23,000 works of art. Each portrait that becomes part of the Portrait Gallery's permanent collection is approved by its Commission, which meets twice yearly. Of paramount concern is the sitter's impact on American history. The Commissioners then address issues such as the quality of the object or the significance of the image as it relates to the subject's biography. In addition to paintings and sculpture, the museum collects photographs, prints, drawings, and, most recently, time-based media. Throughout its history, the National Portrait Gallery has depended on the generosity of donors to enhance its collection. In this selection, many memorable portraits are from gracious benefactors. The American Portrait Gala Exhibitions Endowment supports exhibitions like this one. We gratefully acknowledge those sponsors, chairs, and supporters, who strengthened the endowment through the 2019 American Portrait Gala.
2. SIPGRE_191115_019.JPG: Indra Nooyi, born 1955 Jon R. Friedman, 2019
3. SIPGRE_191115_029.JPG: Untitled Jeffrey P. Bezos, born 1964 Born Albuquerque, New Mexico Jeffrey P. Bezos is the founder of Amazon, a global technology company that helped revolutionize the retail industry, and Blue Origin, whose mission is to lower the cost of access to outer space with reusable launch vehicles. In 1994, after working for several years as a computer scientist on Wall Street, Bezos developed the business plan for Amazon.com, an online bookseller. Today, in addition to selling hundreds of millions of items, the company streams movies and TV shows on Prime Video, and provides cloud-computing infrastructure through Amazon Web Services. Amazon also created the Kindle, Fire TV, and Echo devices, as well as the Alexa voice recognition service. Bezos was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999. He has owned the Washington Post since 2013. The artist Robert McCurdy, who based this portrait on a photograph of Bezos, worked over a period of eighteen months to portray the subject in such meticulous detail. Robert McCurdy, 2019
4. SIPGRE_191115_044.JPG: Earth, Wind & Fire Bruce W. Talamon, 1978 (printed 2019)
5. SIPGRE_191115_049.JPG: Ernest Everett Just, 1883-1941 Born Charleston, South Carolina One of the most brilliant American scientists of his generation, Ernest Everett Just graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1907 and earned his doctorate in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1916. While serving on the faculty of Howard University from 1907 to 1941, Just devoted many summers to experimental research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. His studies of fertilization and early development in marine invertebrates yielded a host of groundbreaking discoveries that overturned widely accepted theories. Despite the significance of Just's work, racial prejudice prevented his full acceptance into the American scientific community. European scientists welcomed him, however, and he spent much of his later career conducting research abroad. In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service featured Just in its Black Heritage stamp series. This drawing of the scientist at work was created for the envelopes that the Postal Service produced to commemorate the stamp's first day of issue. Unidentified artist, 1996
6. SIPGRE_191115_058.JPG: Jorge Soto Sanchez, 1947-1987 Gilberto Hernandez, 1979
7. SIPGRE_191115_064.JPG: Andy Garcia, born 1956 Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, in collaboration with Tico Torres, 1995 (printed 2016)
8. SIPGRE_191115_070.JPG: Andrey Hepburn, 1929-1993 Born Brussels, Belgium Whether playing a princess or a bookstore clerk, Audrey Hepburn epitomized elegance and grace. Despite a difficult youth in Nazi-occupied Holland, two failed marriages, and prolonged periods of self-doubt, she projected an effortless poise onscreen and in public, as well as a doe-eyed impishness that made her a leading box-office star. At a time when women were often cast as the love interests of male leads, Hepburn insisted on playing central characters. As Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) -- with her large sunglasses, oversize cigarette holder, and little black Givenchy dress -- she became a trendsetting icon for a new generation of American women. During the last five years of her life, Hepburn shifted her focus to the plight of suffering children around the globe. In 1992, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Benny Stilling, 1962
9. SIPGRE_191115_079.JPG: Anna Wintour, New York City, 2015 Anna Wintour, born 1949 Annie Leibovitz, 2015 (printed 2019)
10. SIPGRE_191115_091.JPG: Morgan Freeman, born 1937 Jerome De Perlinghi, 1997
11. SIPGRE_191115_096.JPG: Ruben Salazar, 1928-1970 Rupert Garcia, 1970
12. SIPGRE_191115_107.JPG: Michael Tilson Thomas, born 1944 Jerome De Perlinghi, 1999
13. SIPGRE_191115_115.JPG: Leon Gorman, 1947-2015 Born Nashua, New Hampshire During his thirty-four years as president of L. L. Bean, Leon Gorman dramatically expanded and modernized the clothing and outdoor equipment business that his grandfather established in 1912. Shepherding the company through a succession of state-of-the-art innovations, he transferred its catalogue mailing list to a computerized database in the 1970s, introduced a toll-free number for shopping by phone in 1985, and launched internet sales in 1995. Yet even while transforming L. L. Bean into a tech savvy, billion-dollar enterprise, Gorman adhered to the 100 percent customer satisfaction policy that had guided his grandfather's development of the now-iconic rubber-soled boot. In Gorman's view, "Customer service is just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate type of activity." Gorman was equally dedicated to preserving the forests and lakes where he fly-fished and hiked with his dogs. The National Park Foundation and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy are among several environmental groups that have benefited from his support. Jon R. Friedman, 2014
14. SIPGRE_191115_130.JPG: Eddie N. Williams, 1932-2017 Simmie Knox, 2007
15. SIPGRE_191115_135.JPG: Twelve Years a Slave Solomon Northup, 1808-c. 1863 Nathaniel Orr, 1854
16. SIPGRE_191115_148.JPG: Marvin Miller, 1917-2012 Ray Fisher, 1973
17. SIPGRE_191115_152.JPG: Wilma Rudolph, 1940-1994 Tony Vaccaro, 1962 (printed 1975)
18. SIPGRE_191115_161.JPG: William P. Foster, 1919-2010 Slade's Studio Photography, 1968
19. SIPGRE_191115_167.JPG: Patricia Mernone, born 1940 Norman Rockwell, 1968
20. SIPGRE_191115_178.JPG: Philip Glass, born 1937 Luis Alvarez Roure, 2016
21. SIPGRE_191115_197.JPG: Cindy Sherman, born 1954 Robert Mapplethorpe, 1983
22. SIPGRE_191115_201.JPG: Lin-Manuel Miranda, born 1980 Mark Seliger, 2016 (printed 2018)
23. SIPGRE_191115_219.JPG: Paul Taylor, 1930-2018 Jack Mitchell, 1964
24. SIPGRE_191115_228.JPG: Michael Bennett, 1943-1987 Jack Mitchell, 1966
25. SIPGRE_191115_235.JPG: Masazumi Chaya, born 1947 Jack Mitchell, 1979
26. SIPGRE_191115_245.JPG: Frances Arnold, born 1956 Katy Grannan, 2018
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