National Portrait Gallery-39' (Washington West) (38.8978896, -77.0227543)
8th St NW & G St NW, Washington, DC 20001
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Exactly what it says it is, a gallery of portraits. Take special notice of the Presidents. I found them fascinating, both how the style of portraits progressed, but even more so, the facial expressions and what they tried to portray. Such as Carter was very down home, just like what he was as President. While both Kennedy and Clinton's was done in a modern style, which did not work for me at all.
There were people of the West and people of the colonies and everything between. Much more fascinating than I was expecting.
The National Portrait Gallery is housed in the same building as the National Museum of American Art.
One note: eat someplace else. The food is packaged food and seems a bit tasteless.
Trips:
- March 22, 2023 - Spent two hours in the Portrait Gallery. Ate lunch here.
- Wikipedia
- Washington DC tourist site
- Smithsonian
- APNews
- May 14, 2023, AP News did an article on KeHinde Wiley, the artist who did Obama's portrait.
- BBC
- December 14, 2023 - Oprah Winfrey unveils her portrait at national gallery
- December 14, 2023 - What the purple dress in Oprah Winfrey's new portrait really means
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March 22, 2023 - Sherri examining a portrait 
March 22, 2023-Sojourner Truth 
March 22, 2023 - Mary Cassatt 
March 22, 2023 - Abraham Lincoln
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