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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_161103_005.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 25,000 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.
2. SIPGRE_161103_008.JPG: 2 Pac 4 Ever Nearly two decades after his death, Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) remains one of the most magnetic and best-selling rappers in music. With a poetic and raw lyricism, Shakur wrote songs that exposed the inequities experienced by many impoverished inner-city African American communities. Repeatedly condemned for his explicit, violent, and at times misogynistic lyrics, Shakur seemed to embody the "thug life" that his music so artfully populated. His eight-month incarceration for sexual assault coincided with his crossover success. Though he glorified being a "gangsta" in baggy jeans, Shakur was critical of hip-hop excesses and, like his mother, Afeni, who was involved with the Black Panther Party, strove to right social and racial injustices. For Afeni, he recorded one of the most poignant love ballads to a mother, "Dear Mama." Killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas at age twenty-five, Shakur continues to be a profound part of our cultural imagination, most recently inspiring Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway sensation, Hamilton. Afeni Shakur, 2002
3. SIPGRE_161103_016.JPG: George Nakashima, 1905-1990 Trained as an architect in the United States, George Nakashima learned Japanese carpentry while living in Tokyo. After supervising the construction of an ashram in Pondicherry, India (1937–38), he returned to the United States, where he started working with wood. During the Second World War, Nakashima and his family were incarcerated at a Japanese internment camp in Idaho, where he refined his woodworking skills under the guidance of a fellow internee. Upon his release in 1943, Nakashima opened a studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he continued designing and producing furniture. Nathan Benn, who was photographing on assignment for the lifestyle magazine Town & Country, drew inspiration from Nakashima's keen attention to the natural grain of the wood in his designs. Benn asked Nakashima to remove his shirt in hopes that his sitter's body would echo "the earthy texture and shapes of the wood" behind him. Nathan Benn, 1977 (printed 2015)
4. SIPGRE_161103_026.JPG: Fred Rogers, 1928-2003 Thousands of children across the United States grew up watching the television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, hosted by Fred Rogers. Trained as a minister, Rogers began his career in television as a gofer and later as floor director at NBC Studios. He settled briefly in Canada in the early 1960s, where he first appeared on television in his persona as Mister Rogers. In 1966 Misterogers' Neighborhood premiered on Pittsburgh's WQED, and by 1970 the program had been renamed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and was shown nationwide on PBS stations. Throughout more than 1,700 episodes, Rogers often tackled topics that were unusual for children's programming -- including death and divorce -- and always encouraged his young viewers to be respectful and empathetic. Nathan Benn photographed Rogers and one of his grandchildren in a spontaneous and playful moment, "the result of just hanging out with [Rogers] one day." Nathan Benn, 1990 (printed 2015)
5. SIPGRE_161103_033.JPG: Halle Berry, born 1966 Halle Berry began her career as a model and transitioned to acting in the late 1980s. Director Spike Lee cast her in her first movie role in Jungle Fever (1991), a film that focused on racism and interracial relationships. Since then, Berry has established herself as one of Hollywood's best-paid actresses, taking on a wide range of roles, from dramas to action movies. J�r�me De Perlinghi photographed Berry in France at the Deauville Festival of American Film, where she was promoting Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999). In the film, Berry played Dandridge, the first African American woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Unlike Dandridge, who did not win, Berry herself became the first -- and as of 2016 the only -- woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performance in Monster's Ball (2001). Jerome De Perlinghi, 1999
6. SIPGRE_161103_042.JPG: Stephen Van Rensselaer III, 1764-1839 A scion to one of New York's richest families, Stephen Van Rensselaer was the eighth and last patroon of a vast estate between Rensselaer and Albany counties in upstate New York. At age twenty-one he inherited 1,200 square miles of land that he filled with tenant farmers, replicating a Dutch feudal pattern of land-ownership that his tenants challenged. Van Rensselaer spent most of his career in politics, serving as lieutenant governor of New York from 1795 to 1801. During the War of 1812 he was named commander in chief of the New York militia; his military shortcomings were exposed, however, and his troops were mauled at the Battle of Queenston Heights. Humiliated, he resigned his office. Thereafter he served four congressional terms and helped found Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. John Wesley Jarvis, the painter of this work, was one of the most prominent portraitists in New York during the early nineteenth century. John Wesley Jarvis, c 1825-35
7. SIPGRE_161103_049.JPG: Wendell Phillips, 1811-1884 A born orator, Wendell Phillips was a champion of the abolitionist movement. He joined the crusade publicly by attacking the pro-slavery forces responsible for the murder of civil rights fighter Elijah Lovejoy in 1837. After the Civil War, Phillips fought for the American labor, temperance, and women's rights movements, and for the reform of policies regarding Native Americans. Critically acclaimed sculptor Edmonia Lewis received support from patrons in the abolitionist movement who wished to foster the talents of African American artists. She is best known for her portraits of John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, and Phillips Edmonia Lewis, 1871
8. SIPGRE_161103_053.JPG: Antonia Pantoja, 1922-2002 A preeminent social leader of Puerto Ricans in the United States, Antonia Pantoja arrived in New York City in 1944, joining thousands of islanders who moved there between the mid-1940s and the late 1950s to work in low-paying post–World War II industries. Employed at various factories, she quickly started organizing workers to contest salaries below the minimum wage and other labor violations. Meanwhile, with scholarships, savings, and determination, she completed a bachelor's degree in sociology at Hunter College and earned a doctorate in social work. In 1961 Pantoja founded ASPIRA ("to strive" in Spanish), an organization aimed at overcoming the disproportionate high-school dropout rates among Latinos. ASPIRA won a landmark lawsuit in 1972 that mandated bilingual education in the New York school system. Pantoja's efforts in education earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996. This mosaic is a study for a public mural honoring Pantoja, installed in the Puerto Rican community of East Harlem in 2015. Manny Vega, 2014
9. SIPGRE_161103_058.JPG: Reynolds Price, 1933-2011 An important voice in southern fiction, Reynolds Price wrote stories about "ordinary people" and their struggles "to find their place in the world." He made his debut on the American literary stage with A Long and Happy Life (1962), earning critical acclaim for his "pungent Southern dialogue, highly wrought prose style and vivid evocation of rural Southern life." Price penned thirteen novels and dozens of short stories and taught writing and poetry at his alma mater, Duke University, for more than fifty years, inspiring a new generation of southern novelists. San Francisco–based artist Will Wilson has been creating realist, sometimes trompe l'œil, paintings for more than thirty years. He made five portraits of Price, from small heads like this one to larger likenesses of the writer in his home or study. Will Wilson, 1997
10. SIPGRE_161103_063.JPG: Lady with Red Bow Beth Katz Levine (1914–2006) was one of the most influential and dynamic fashion designers of the twentieth century. Beginning as a shoe model, she later created her own designs for Herbert Levine, who worked for shoe manufacturer Andrew Geller. After marrying in 1946, the Levines made shoes under the Herbert Levine label. Beth Levine was also famous for her custom shoes, such as the stiletto boots Nancy Sinatra wore during performances of her 1966 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." Levine also created one-off whimsical shoes that were impractical to market but attracted the attention of consumers and the industry. She received a Coty Award in 1967 for design innovation and is recognized by the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute for her contribution to the creation of a postwar American style of women's fashion. Artist Philip Pearlstein, whose wife, Dorothy, was Levine's first cousin, has captured the designer in the midst of assessing him -- and us -- with one eyebrow raised. Philip Pearlstein, 1985
11. SIPGRE_161103_070.JPG: Arthur B. Davis, 1862-1928 After moving to New York City in 1887, Arthur Davies became a leading art-world figure. In addition to his work as an artist, he was also an advisor and mentor to others. While serving as president of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, Davies also spearheaded the organization of the 1913 Armory Show, considered a turning point in the exhibition of modern American art. Many of his selections introduced European modernism -- including works by Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso -- to audiences in Chicago, Boston, and New York. A great admirer of Davies's work, Gertrude K�sebier photographed him in 1904, the same year that he exhibited seven paintings at the National Arts Club alongside work by other progressive artists who would soon become part of the group known as "The Eight." Davies inscribed the photograph to his fellow "Eight" artist George Luks. Gertrude Kasebier, 1904
12. SIPGRE_161103_074.JPG: Consuelo Kanaga, 1894-1978 Beginning in 1915 Consuelo Kanaga served as a reporter and then as a staff photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle. While in San Francisco, she befriended members of the city's artistic community, including photographers Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston, and later exhibited her work alongside theirs as an unofficial member of the group f/64. In 1922 she moved to New York City, where she worked for the New York American. There, she also met photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whose journal Camera Work had been crucial in raising awareness of photography as a fine art. Stieglitz encouraged Kanaga to mine the medium's aesthetic possibilities in her photojournalism. In her eclectic oeuvre, she sensitively documented social inequities, most notably the plight of African Americans and migrant workers; she also photographed still lifes of flowers and household objects. Alma Lavenson was establishing herself as a portraitist in the Bay Area in the early 1930s when she photographed Kanaga. Alma Lavenson, c 1931
13. SIPGRE_161103_078.JPG: Songwriters In March 1948 Vogue magazine published this group portrait with the caption, "Six composers whose songs are current delights in five Broadway musicals." Positioned prominently at the center of the image is composer Frederick Loewe (1901–1988), whose Brigadoon (1947) ran for 581 performances. Loewe and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (not pictured) later scored hits with My Fair Lady (1956) and Camelot (1960). Also pictured (left to right) are Bob Hilliard (1918–1971), who penned the lyrics for "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (1955) and "Our Day Will Come" (1963); Richard Lewine (1910–2005), producer of Cinderella (1957), the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical created expressly for television; Hugh Martin (1914–2011), who wrote the film score for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944); Burton Lane (1912–1997), composer of the musicals Finian's Rainbow (1947) and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965); and Carl Sigman, lyricist for songs such as "Crazy He Calls Me" (1949) and "It's All in the Game" (1951). Irving Penn, 1948
14. SIPGRE_161103_087.JPG: Geraldo Rivera, born 1943 Geraldo Rivera was a brash young lawyer representing the New York City–based Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords when an executive at ABC spotted him speaking on The Today Show and offered him a job as a news reporter. Rivera carried his aggressive and flamboyant style to television, reporting on social issues like migrant labor and drug addiction. In 1972 he won the prestigious Peabody Award for his report on the abuse of patients with mental disabilities at Willowbrook State School. Soon he began appearing on 20/20, Nightline, and Good Morning America. Later he championed tabloid news and sensationalism in his talk show Geraldo (1987–98). In 2001 he left his show Rivera Live on CNBC to become a war correspondent with Fox News; he is now the network's senior correspondent. Here, photographer Ken Regan captures Rivera in his office with a Puerto Rican flag in the background. Ken Regan, c 1975
15. SIPGRE_161103_091.JPG: Barbara Walters Barbara Walters has redefined the role of women on television news. She started at CBS as a producer and writer in the 1950s, and by the 1960s she was in front of the camera at NBC. She changed the tenor of her position by not shying away from serious topics and became the Today Show's first female co-host in 1974. Walters moved to ABC in 1976 when the network hired her as the first woman to co-anchor the national evening news. She later became the co-host of ABC's 20/20. Walters has interviewed world leaders, including Israel's Menachem Begin, Cuba's Fidel Castro, and Egypt's Anwar Sadat, and brought celebrities to tears in her legendary year-end conversations on The Ten Most Fascinating People. In 1997 she developed the morning program The View. Initially seen as a gamble for ABC, the program proved a success and is still on the air even after Walters's retirement.
16. SIPGRE_161103_092.JPG: Piri Thomas, 1928-2011 In the 1960s, the civil rights movement spawned a literary movement that expressed the political and cultural aspirations of a dispossessed generation in the form of memoirs and autobiographies. Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets (1967) is an influential example of this genre, acclaimed for its candor and testament to the human spirit. The memoir drew on Thomas's upbringing in El Barrio during the Great Depression, the dehumanizing racism he faced as the black son of Puerto Rican and Cuban parents, his time in prison and as a gang member, and his rebirth as an educator and a writer. Thomas was an important figure in the Nuyorican (New York–Puerto Rican) literary movement, which fought for the social, cultural, and political empowerment of a community then plagued by high levels of poverty and a lack of social services. M�ximo Col�n took this photograph for a segment that WNET's prime time Puerto Rican television show Realidades devoted to Thomas's memoir. Maximo Colon, 1972
17. SIPGRE_161103_097.JPG: Evelina Antonetty Known as the "mother of the Bronx," community organizer and education leader Evelina Antonetty was a driving force behind the efforts that transformed the Bronx from a symbol of urban blight in the 1960s and 1970s into a livable place in the 1980s. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the United States, Antonetty found herself frustrated by the inferior services the public school system provided to poor Puerto Rican and African American children. In 1965 she founded United Bronx Parents (UBP), an organization that fostered quality education and community control of schools. In the 1970s UBP became a model of urban grassroots organizing. Expanding to include a bilingual care center, an adult education program, and a youth leadership center, it empowered residents to fight against the social ills caused by failed urban and economic policies. This portrait of Antonetty was taken by fellow organizer Frank Espada, photographer of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
18. SIPGRE_161103_098.JPG: Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), 1743-1807 On the eve of the American Revolution, the Mohawk leader Thayendanegea (also known as Joseph Brant) visited England to request aid in settling land disputes with the American colonists. Educated at a Connecticut missionary school, Brant dazzled aristocratic admirers with his elegant manners and command of English. Artists painted his portrait, and George III presented Brant with the crescent-shaped silver plate (known as a gorget) shown hanging from his neck in this mezzotint. Back in America, Brant persuaded the Iroquois Confederacy to side with the British. Convinced that victory for the colonists meant disaster for Native Americans, he orchestrated devastating campaigns against rebel forces. Following Britain's defeat, Brant settled more than 1,800 Indian Loyalists on the Grand River in Ontario, where he had been awarded 675,000 acres. His diplomatic efforts to protect Indian territories by creating a unified tribal confederacy ultimately proved unsuccessful. John Raphael Smith, after George Romney, 1779
19. SIPGRE_161103_101.JPG: Siamese Twins The outdated term "Siamese twins" originates from brothers Chang and Eng Bunker (both 1811–1874), born in Siam (now Thailand) with a shared liver and joined at the sternum. Discovered in their teens by a Scottish merchant and put on tour, the conjoined twins became sensations. For most of their career, they acted as their own managers, and so were neither exploited as curiosities nor exiled for their unusual anatomy. With their commercial success, they settled on a North Carolina plantation, became slaveholders, married two sisters, and fathered twenty-one children. They died within hours of each other. Their story has been interpreted by many, from Mark Twain to a current film in the works by Gary Oldman. This broadside shows the twins in a tropical scene as both Eastern and Western subjects, wearing suits and cloth headdresses and highlighting their connecting tissue. It shrewdly offers for sale autobiographical pamphlets and portraits, "suitable for framing." Unidentified artist, c 1838-45
20. SIPGRE_161103_107.JPG: Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003 In addition to being one of America's most beloved and successful actresses (the recipient of four Academy Awards), Katharine Hepburn was also a dedicated amateur artist. Her many paintings, drawings, and sculptures include unsparing portraits of herself, such as this caricature as Coco Chanel in Hepburn's first and only Broadway musical, Coco. Having achieved iconic status in the 1930s and 1940s by playing strong, independent-minded women in mainstream Hollywood films, Hepburn was eager to embrace new challenges late in her career, believing "It's better to try something difficult and flop than to play it safe all the time." In her sixth and seventh decades, she achieved some of her finest performances in wide-ranging productions that included the twelfth-century historical saga The Lion in Winter (1968), the Edwardian romantic comedy Love among the Ruins (1975), and the contemporary family drama On Golden Pond (1981). Self-portrait, c 1971
21. SIPGRE_161103_118.JPG: Rosalynn Carter, born 1927 During her years in the White House (1977–81), First Lady Rosalynn Carter expanded the role of the presidential spouse, regularly attending cabinet meetings and representing her husband, Jimmy Carter, in political forums at home and abroad. A committed and effective campaigner, she posed for this portrait a few days before embarking on a whistle-stop tour from Pittsburgh to Chicago during her husband's successful first run for the presidency. Carter has devoted much of her life to public service. For more than four decades she has championed the needs of people with mental illness while also advocating on behalf of numerous other causes, including the Equal Rights Amendment, early childhood immunization, Cambodian refugees, and the homeless. In 1982 she and her husband co-founded the Carter Center to promote peace and human rights around the globe. They jointly received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. Robert Templeton, 1977
22. SIPGRE_161103_123.JPG: Shirley Chisholm, 1924-2005 "Unbought and unbossed," Shirley Chisholm was a strident voice both for the underrepresented and against the ingratiating, corrupt nature of politics. She began her professional career as a teacher in New York City but quickly turned to public service, serving in the state's General Assembly from 1964 to 1968. In the latter year, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. Undoubtedly, her fluency in Spanish and appeal to women's organizations helped her win New York's Twelfth District seat. There she became an outspoken advocate for civil rights, and protested against the Vietnam War. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Chisholm also was an ardent supporter of women's issues. This poster was used in her 1972 run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Although ultimately unsuccessful, Chisholm inspired many with her message about unification, creating national conversations about a place for African Americans and women in the executive branch and as commander in chief. Unidentified artist, 1972
23. SIPGRE_161103_131.JPG: Virginia M. Zabriskie, born 1927 In 1954 Virginia Zabriskie paid one dollar to assume the lease of a small gallery on Madison Avenue, becoming the youngest art dealer in New York City. Insightful and independent, Zabriskie challenged the predominance of abstract expressionism by exhibiting the work of figurative painters such as Robert De Niro Sr. (father of the actor), who drew this portrait a year after she began showing his work. During a career of more than fifty years, Zabriskie cultivated an eclectic mix of modernism, surrealism, and contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography. From 1977 to 1998 she operated a photography gallery and bookstore in Paris that stimulated new interest in neglected French masters such as Eug�ne Atget and Nadar, while introducing Europeans to American photographers such as Diane Arbus and Walker Evans. In addition to blazing a trail in the art world, Zabriskie has raised awareness of the neuromuscular disorder dystonia, which has affected her for most of her life. Robert De Niro Sr., 1959
24. SIPGRE_161103_141.JPG: Ethan Allen, c 1737-1789 This small portrait -- the only known image of Ethan Allen made during his lifetime -- scarcely hints at the larger-than-life persona that made him a force to be reckoned with. Outraged by a court decision that would have stripped frontiersmen of land they were settling in the Green Mountains (now in Vermont), Allen spearheaded a campaign of resistance and intimidation. Emboldened by his successful attack on Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775, he made an impulsive attempt to seize Montreal four months later and was captured by the British. Upon his release, Allen published a scathing account of his two-and-a-half years of imprisonment, an excerpt of which appears in this issue of Russell's American Almanack. Turning his attention to politics, Allen unsuccessfully lobbied Congress in 1778 for Vermont's recognition as an independent state. Always controversial, he devoted his last years to writing radical theological treatises. Unidentified artist, c 1779
25. SIPGRE_161103_149.JPG: Felisa Rincon de Gautier, 1897-1994 In 1946 Felisa Rinc�n de Gautier became the first female mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, as well as of a capital city in the Americas. Appointed to replace a mayor who had resigned, Rinc�n de Gautier ran for election in 1948 and won. She was reelected four more times, serving until 1968. She was the first woman elected to be Mayor of a capital city in the Americas.The child of a lawyer and a teacher, she left school at the age of fifteen to care for seven younger siblings. Her entrance into active political life came in 1932, when she campaigned successfully for women's suffrage. Known to her constituents as "Do�a Fela," she was a close ally of Governor Luis Mu�oz Mar�n and was a tenacious advocate for public works, cultural preservation, and female participation in the workforce. In 1949 she established a program of child-care centers that became the model for the federal Head Start program in the 1960s. Here Antonio Martorell captures Rinc�n de Gautier with her signature oversize glasses and grande dame coiffure. Antonio Martorell, 1992
26. SIPGRE_161103_158.JPG: Love Letter, 1971 Now a retired professor Angela Davis (born 1944) was one of the most visible radical figures during the 1960s. A student of philosophy, Davis was drawn into the civil rights movement through the Black Panther Party. In 1972, she was found not guilty of murder and kidnapping in the aftermath of an armed attempt to free three inmates at Soledad Prison who were themselves facing murder charges. This lithograph by Charles White is equal parts artistic object and historical document. White was renowned for his social realist style emphasizing the beauty and struggles of African Americans. His depiction of Davis, rendered in his characteristic monochromatic palette and cubist form, was fueled by his admiration for the activist. In 1971, the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners circulated a pamphlet with this image of Davis on the cover as part of a letter-writing campaign to California governor Ronald Reagan demanding Davis's release from prison. Charles White, 1971
27. SIPGRE_161103_163.JPG: Clemente Soto Velez, 1905-1993 In response to the economic devastation of rural workers and small landowners by absentee American corporations in Puerto Rico, and the imposition of English in the schools of the Spanish-speaking island, in 1929 the poet Clemente Soto V�lez founded the literary movement El Atalaya de los Dioses (The Watchtower of the Gods) to promote a political and literary revolution against U.S. colonial rule. In 1932 Soto V�lez joined the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, led by Pedro Albizu Campos, and was imprisoned for his political activities and for instigating a sugar strike. Upon his release in 1943 he settled permanently in New York City, where he became active in the American Labor Party and established the Puerto Rican Merchants Association. His poems and plays made him into a renowned Latin American literary figure and a mentor to young artists. Antonio Martorell made this portrait in preparation for illustrating Soto V�lez's book-length poem, La tierra prometida, published in 1979. Antonio Martorell, 1977
28. SIPGRE_161103_169.JPG: Rudolfo Anaya, born 1937 "What I've wanted to do is compose the Chicano worldview -- the synthesis that shows our true mestizo identity -- and clarify it for my community and myself." Rudolfo Anaya achieved this in his first novel, Bless Me, Ultima (1972), a partly autobiographical story of a child growing during World War II, who through a curandera, or healer, begins to understand the mysteries of nature, morality, and spirituality. The novel was acclaimed for its lyricism, its alternation of English and Spanish, and its fresh way of relaying the Mexican American experience of the Southwest, where Native American, Mexican, Spanish, and Anglo cultures converge. His work is a fundamental text of Chicano literature and heralded a career that spanned four decades, which includes the award-winning books Tortuga (1979) and Alburquerque (1992), a reference to the original spelling of the city name. Similar to Anaya, El Paso artist Gaspar Enr�quez is lauded for community portraits that enhance our understanding of Chicano identity on the local, regional, and national stage. Gaspar Enriquez, 2016
29. SIPGRE_161103_178.JPG: Bill T. Jones, born 1952 Artistic director, choreographer, and dancer Bill T. Jones has devoted his career to expanding the parameters of dance. The tenth of twelve children born to migrant workers, Jones began exploring the possibilities of dance while in college, working in close collaboration with Arnie Zane. From the early 1970s until Zane's death from AIDS in 1988, the two men created controversy and acclaim through choreography that incorporated politicized subject matter (such as homosexuality and racism) and multimedia elements. This poster documents Jones's 1982 collaboration with artist Keith Haring and photographer Tseng Kwong Chi on a project merging body-painting, dance, and photography. Jones has created more than 140 works for his own dance company as well as many commissions for theater, musicals, and opera. His numerous honors include a MacArthur "genius" award, two Tony Awards, and the National Medal of Arts. Unidentified artist, after Keith Haring and Tseng Kwong Chi, 1983
30. SIPGRE_161104_08.JPG: Self Portrait, Submerged Acive since the late 1970s and awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1989, Bill Viola (born 1951) is widely respected as one of the pioneers of time-based media art. Through the medium of video, Viola focuses on the human body to create searing works about universal themes and emotional experiences. During his career, he has drawn on both Western and Eastern religions to explore issues of spirituality. This work was initially made for the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and an edition of it hangs among the self-portraits of such illustrious artists as Rembrandt, Velazquez, and Delacroix. Always intrigued by the mystical properties of water, Viola has chosen to depict himself submerged underwater, with gentle ripples and bubbles animating the surface. With his eyes closed and wearing his usual prayer bead necklace, Viola shows a faint smile and floats peacefully.
31. SIPGRE_161104_22.JPG: Barbara Walters, born 1929 Barbara Walters has redefined the role of women on television news. She started at CBS as a producer and writer in the 1950s, and by the 1960s she was in front of the camera at NBC. She changed the tenor of her position by not shying away from serious topics and became the Today Show's first female co-host in 1974. Walters moved to ABC in 1976 when the network hired her as the first woman to co-anchor the national evening news. She later became the co-host of ABC's 20/20. Walters has interviewed world leaders, including Israel's Menachem Begin, Cuba's Fidel Castro, and Egypt's Anwar Sadat, and brought celebrities to tears in her legendary year-end conversations on The Ten Most Fascinating People. In 1997 she developed the morning program The View. Initially seen as a gamble for ABC, the program proved a success and is still on the air even after Walters's retirement. Lynn Gilbert, 1980
32. SIPGRE_161104_35.JPG: Evelina Lopez Antonetty, 1922-1984 Known as the "mother of the Bronx," community organizer and education leader Evelina Antonetty was a driving force behind the efforts that transformed the Bronx from a symbol of urban blight in the 1960s and 1970s into a livable place in the 1980s. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in the United States, Antonetty found herself frustrated by the inferior services the public school system provided to poor Puerto Rican and African American children. In 1965 she founded United Bronx Parents (UBP), an organization that fostered quality education and community control of schools. In the 1970s UBP became a model of urban grassroots organizing. Expanding to include a bilingual care center, an adult education program, and a youth leadership center, it empowered residents to fight against the social ills caused by failed urban and economic policies. This portrait of Antonetty was taken by fellow organizer Frank Espada, photographer of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Frank Espada, 1980
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