BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2018)

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2018):

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Description of Pictures: Recent Acquisitions
November 16, 2018 – November 3, 2019
The Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald were just two of several prized artworks acquired by the National Portrait Gallery during its 50th anniversary. As the Portrait Gallery turns the corner on a new decade of its legacy, the museum presents an exhibition of historic and contemporary works newly acquired for its growing collection. Subjects include Celia Cruz, Edwin Hubble, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Louie Pérez, Maurice Sendak, George Walker, and Oprah Winfrey. The exhibition presents work by artists including Imogen Cunningham, Harry Gamboa Jr., Brigitte Lacombe, Charles Willson Peale, Shahzia Sikander, and Andy Warhol. Recent Acquisitions is co-curated by the National Portrait Gallery’s team of curators and historians.

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[4] SIPGRE_181117_030.JPG	[5] SIPGRE_181117_034.JPG	[6] SIPGRE_181117_041.JPG
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[25] SIPGRE_181117_188.JPG	[26] SIPGRE_181117_193.JPG	[27] SIPGRE_181117_203.JPG
[28] SIPGRE_181117_207.JPG	[29] SIPGRE_181117_212.JPG	[30] SIPGRE_181117_218.JPG

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGRE_181117_001.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. [NOTE: In previous years, the Recent Acquisitions signs said they had more than 25,000 works of art. Now it says 23,000.]
2. SIPGRE_181117_008.JPG: I'm Big Papi David Ortiz by Freddy Rodriguez, 2008
3. SIPGRE_181117_014.JPG: A-Rod Six of Thirteen Alex Rodriguez by Freddy Rodriguez, 2007
4. SIPGRE_181117_030.JPG: Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012 by Mariana Cook, 2005 (printed 2012)
5. SIPGRE_181117_034.JPG: Rudolfo Acuna, Ph.D., Historian (CSUN) by Harry Gamboa, Jr., 2000
6. SIPGRE_181117_041.JPG: Ellen Stewart, 1919-2011 by Jonathan Atkin, 1986
7. SIPGRE_181117_047.JPG: Louie Perez, Musician (Los Lobos) by Harry Gamboa, Jr., 2012
8. SIPGRE_181117_051.JPG: Oprah Winfrey by Brigitte Lacombe, 2009 (printed 2012)
9. SIPGRE_181117_064.JPG: Julius Fleishmann, 1871-1925 by Frederick William Wright, c 1920-1925
10. SIPGRE_181117_070.JPG: Album of Gems, Introduced by Williams and Walker and Their Own Big Company George Walker and Bert Williams This sheet music cover features portraits of renowned vaudeville performers George Walker (lower left) and Bert Williams (upper right) and scenes of, among other things, the actors teaching their famous "cake walk" to William Vanderbilt. The Policy Players was their 1899 production that garnered glowing reviews and stories of audiences laughing in "uproars." Walker and Williams reclaimed material from white minstrelsy performers who "blacked up" to racially derogate African Americans. Walker was the straight man and petty tyrant of the hapless and put-upon Williams. The gaiety of this cover featuring flowers, ribbons, and levity, however, belies the darkly racist and contradictory conditions the entertainers endured as pioneers in professionalizing black theater -- as "blacks in blackface." W.C. Fields, another vaudeville actor, once commented, Williams was "the funniest man I ever saw -- and the saddest man I ever knew." Unidentified artist, 1899
11. SIPGRE_181117_076.JPG: David Ramsay, 1749-1815 by Charles Willson Peale, 1771
12. SIPGRE_181117_083.JPG: An American Jockey James FOrman "Tod" Sloan, 1874-1933 by Godfrey Douglas Giles, 1899
13. SIPGRE_181117_094.JPG: Emma Catherine Embury, 1806-1863 by Jacob Hart Lazarus, after Henry Inman, c 1870-1880, after c 1832-34 original
14. SIPGRE_181117_097.JPG: Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Behring's Straits, in Search of a North-East Passage Kamehameha I, 1758 - 1819 by Louis Choris, c 1821
15. SIPGRE_181117_104.JPG: Phylicia Rashad, born 1948 by Alex Asher Daniel, 2011
16. SIPGRE_181117_114.JPG: Annie Jump Cannon, 1863-1941 by Eleanor Connell, c 1930
17. SIPGRE_181117_118.JPG: Dong Kingman, 1911-2000 by William Arthur Smith, c 1950
18. SIPGRE_181117_127.JPG: Helen Keller, 1880-1968 by Jo Davidson, 1948
19. SIPGRE_181117_144.JPG: Helen Keller, 1880-1968 by Jo Davidson, 1948
20. SIPGRE_181117_153.JPG: Wuthering Heights Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier by Unidentified artist, c 1939
21. SIPGRE_181117_161.JPG: Edwin Hubble by Unidentified photographer, 1949
22. SIPGRE_181117_166.JPG: Pauline Koner, 1912-2001 by Lotte Jacobi, c 1950
23. SIPGRE_181117_173.JPG: Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963 by Imogen Cunningham, 1959
24. SIPGRE_181117_188.JPG: Jacqueline Kennedy III from 11 Pop Artists, Volume III Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1929-1994 by Andy Warhol, 1966
25. SIPGRE_181117_193.JPG: George Walker, 1922-2018 by Frank Schramm, 2010 (printed 2017)
26. SIPGRE_181117_207.JPG: Portraits of the Artist Ayad Akhtar by Shazia Sikander, 2016
27. SIPGRE_181117_212.JPG: Portraits of the Artist Ayad Akhtar by Shazia Sikander, 2016
28. SIPGRE_181117_218.JPG: Celia Cruz, 1925-2003 by Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, in collaboration with Tico Torres, 1994 (printed 2016)
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