The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in partnership with Explore! Children’s Museum opens its first-ever space dedicated to children Jan. 28, 2017. “Explore! with the Portrait Gallery” will ...
WASHINGTON — With its peaceful and pristine hallways that are decorated with historic paintings and photographs, the National Portrait Gallery may not be the first destination that comes to mind as a ...
Usually when drawing a portrait, artists like Alyssa Wentzel can ask their models to move this way or that and capture the shifts in mood in real time. One of Wentzel’s recent portraits, however, was ...
Ayah Kurdi spent so much time studying the face of her 17-year-old portrait class subject that “I kind of developed a little crush on him,” she said. Ayah, a 17-year-old senior, was one of more than ...
Among the works in the online portfolio of a New York portrait artist named Gerald Slater is a commissioned oil painting, 22 by 28 inches in dimension, titled "Eric at the Window." A shaggy-haired boy ...
A year ago this month, when it was still closed to the public because of the pandemic, the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) took a major step toward interrogating a controversial 18th-century group ...