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Georgia O’Keeffe grooms her two large fluffs at home in New Mexico.
“Life” magazine photographer John Loengard captured this candid moment on a trip to mark the artist’s 80th birthday. This photo is now in our National Portrait Gallery.
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The “First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald, was born 100 years ago today.
We’re celebrating the centennial of her birth and the legendary career that followed with this portrait on view at our National Portrait Gallery. Dizzy Gillespie, on the right, is all of us as he gazes at Lady Ella in song.
The photographer, William P. Gottlieb, learned to use a camera so that he could include images in his weekly music column for TheWashington Post. Today, his photos of jazz musicians from the 1930s and ’40s are regarded as invaluable visual records of jazz’s Golden Age.
Read more about Fitzgerald’s rise to fame and this portrait, a recent museum acquisition which has never been shown before.
More pieces from her life in our collection in our Twitter Moment.
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Former showgirl Mandy Rice-Davies following her court appearance as a witness in the Profumo affair, 1967 | Tom Blau
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Lying in State of King Edward VII in Westminster Hall
By an unknown photographer
Bromide print, 17-19 May 1910
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#EleanorTomlinson at ‘Private View of Michael Jackson : On the Wall’ at National Portrait Gallery, London via @FarFarAwaySite
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1558 Elizabeth I in coronation robes . c1600, unknown artist; copy of a lost original. This portrait can be viewed at the NPG. This is a copy of the portrait made to commemorate Elizabeth’s accession in 1558.
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Ralph Lauren will be among the distinguished individuals featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s annual “Recent Acquisitions” exhibition on display beginning November 17.
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A portrait of the comet boy as a bearer of memories
2019
Timothy Lee
The Outwin Competition at the National Portrait Gallery
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Kyung’s Gift in Pojagi
Kira Nam Greene
2019
The Outwin Competition at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Aleah Chapin’s painting, Auntie, won first place at the 2012 National Portrait Gallery exhibition of recent works in London.
She finds models for her art by persuading her mother’s friends to pose naked.
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Side-by-side portraits of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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A portrait of Seamus Heaney by Tai-Shan Shierenberg at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti—Self-Portrait,1847.
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previews of the pre-raphaelite sisterhood exhibit catalogue, by jan marsh and peter funnell. featuring the work of elizabeth siddal, christina rossetti, evelyn de morgan, fanny eaton, and other women from the pre-raphaelite movement, the exhibition runs at the national portrait gallery until 26 january 2020. you can purchase the catalogue here.
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