PBS American Portrait presents three groundbreaking public art projects. Inspired by stories shared on this site, as well as the unique individual and community narratives of the artists ...

The CAP maintains records of historically significant American portraits, i.e., portraits of notable American subjects or by notable American artists. New material is added regularly from various ...

including artists of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican descent, as well as other Latin American groups with deep roots in the United States. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

But on Tuesday, the deeply allegorical portrait, painted in 1865 by the American-Jewish artist, made a rare public ... a scroll with the words from his famous second inaugural address ...