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		Exhibition Programs & Resources Americans Now Grades 4–12 Aug. 20, 2010, through July 10, 2011 “Americans Now,” drawn from the Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection, features individuals prominent in sports, entertainment and other fields of endeavor during the last 10 years. Online exhibition “Americans Now”: Self-Portrait Remix “Americans Now”: Sitters at Work “Americans Now”: You be the Critic Reflections/Refractions Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century Grades 4–12 April 10 through August 16, 2009 $Reflections/Refractions$ This exhibition of approximately 75 works will probe the complex issues of understanding identity in the past century. Both lesson plans, developed by Portrait Gallery staff, examine how artists have chosen to represent themselves through self-portraiture Online exhibition Lesson Plan 1: Creating in the Style of... Lesson Plan 2: Self-Portrait Poetry Presidents in Waiting Grades 4–12 January 20, 2009–January 3, 2010 John Adams viewed the office of the vice president as the "most insignificant office" ever invented by man. In fact, fourteen vice presidents have succeeded to the presidency. Students will discover how these men stepped into the presidential role and helped shape history. Online exhibition Study Guides: The Death of Harrison Is It Only a Shadow?: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson’s Legacy Eye Contact Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery This exhibition celebrates fifty masterpieces on paper highlighting famed Americans of the past century by legendary artists. Recognizable subjects are coupled with the appeal of popular mediums such as watercolors, pen and ink, crayon, charcoal, and pastel. Online exhibition Teacher's Guide George Washington: A National Treasure The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, celebrates our nation's first president--the man, the icon, the hero. As Gilbert Stuart's original portrait of George Washington travels across the country for the first time, Americans of all ages will be able to experience the most important visual document of our nation's founding. This interactive web site allows you to explore the enduring legacy of George Washington. Washington changed the world. Find out how. Online exhibition The Patriot Papers Teacher's Guide Family Guide A Brush with History Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery The portrait tradition in the United States is richly textured, like the multifaceted historical narrative it reflects. The paintings in this exhibition suggest the range of individuals who have shaped the American experience since the nation was founded and introduce the stylistic variety of American portraiture Online exhibition The Great History Mystery (FLASH plug-in required) Teacher Resource Guide (Online) Teacher Resource Guide (PDF) Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery Since the Portrait Gallery opened in 1968, its most enduring popular attraction has been the Hall of Presidents, where formal painted and sculpted portraits of every chief executive have been on view. This powerful group of images reminds visitors that the presidency stands at the center of the nation's public life. Online exhibition Teacher's Guide (PDF) Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time Ernest Hemingway has been called the single most influential American writer of the twentieth century and in his own day he achieved an unmatched literary and popular celebrity. This online exhibition marked the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth with photographs, paintings, letters, first editions, manuscripts, and personal memorabilia. Also included are Hemingway's contemporaries, such as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Online exhibition Teacher's Guide (Online) Teacher's Guide (PDF) A Durable Memento Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist Augustus Washington (1820/21-1875) is one of only a handful of African American daguerreotypists whose work has been identified and collected, and whose career has been documented. The exhibition presents thirty-two daguerreotypes from Washington's career as the proprietor of one of the first daguerrean studios in Hartford, Connecticut, and his early years in Liberia after he immigrated there in 1853 Online exhibition Teacher's Guide (Online) Teacher's Guide (PDF) Tête à Tête Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson Best known as the photographer who first captured the "decisive moment" on film in the 1930s, Henri Cartier-Bresson has been making portraits throughout his career as an artist and photojournalist. In 1997, on the eve of his ninetieth birthday, Cartier-Bresson surveyed work made over five decades to create this exhibition. Included are portraits of such notable Americans as Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Susan Sontag, and Martin Luther King Jr., and internationally known figures such as Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso. Online exhibition Teacher's Guide (Online) Teacher Guide (PDF) smithsonian institution \| privacy \| copyright \| sitemap \| npg home							Phone: (202) 633-8500 FAX: (202) 633-8521 E-mail: NPGEducation@si.edu Mailing Address: Office of Education National Portrait Gallery P.O. Box 37012 Washington, D.C. 20013-0712 View the original image.