DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Portrait of Stephen Colbert:
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- Description of Pictures: Portrait of Stephen Colbert
December 20, 2014 – April 20, 2015
In recognition of the end of Stephen Colbert’s decade-long persona for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, the museum has borrowed Colbert’s portrait, which was created for the final season of the show.
In 2008, Colbert contacted the National Portrait Gallery hoping to donate a portrait of himself from the show. The museum agreed to go along with the joke and temporarily installed the work. As with many other items that bore the Colbert stamp of approval, the museum experienced a “Colbert bump”—crowds lined up to get their picture taken with Colbert’s portrait.
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Born Washington DC
In 2008, Stephen Colbert, the mock pundit for Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, contacted the National Portrait Gallery hoping to donate his portrait from the show. The museum agreed to go along with the joke and installed the portrait for a limited time. As with many other items that bore the Colbert stamp of approval, the museum experienced a "Colbert bump" -- crowds lined up to get their picture taken with Colbert's portrait.
Now, in recognition of the end of his decade-long persona, the museum has borrowed the portrait created for the final season of The Colbert Report. The work is installed where the earlier iteration of his portrait appeared: between the bathrooms and above the water fountain.
This portrait will be here for a limited time, so refresh yourself at the drinking fountain while contemplating the satirically self-important talk show host the "Colbert Nation" came to admire.
Digital image on canvas, 2013
On loan from The Colbert Report
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