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Past Exhibitions: 2012
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The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to offer several online versions of past museum exhibitions. Each of these online presentations accompanied actual exhibitions and now serve to extend those shows indefinitely.

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Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter
Exhibited August 12, 2011 through October 14, 2012

Through the groundbreaking work of seven talented artists from across the country and around the world, this exhibition offered provocative renditions of the Asian American experience.

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In Vibrant Color: Vintage Celebrity Portraits from the Harry Warnecke Studio
Exhibited March 2, 2012 through September 9, 2012

Drawing from the NPG’s collection of large-format, tri-color carbo photographs originally created under the auspices of the Daily News, this exhibition will feature twenty-four celebrity portraits from the 1930s and 1940s.



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One Life: Ronald Reagan
Exhibited July 1, 2011 through May 28, 2012

"One Life: Ronald Reagan" commemorated the centennial of this “consequential” and “transformational” president, terms used to describe the Reagan presidency by President Barack Obama.

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Mementos: Painted and Photographic Miniatures, 1750-1920
Exhibited June 17, 2011 through May 13, 2012

Portrait miniatures are small, engaging, painted likenesses usually created as love tokens or personal mementoes.

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The Black List:
Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

Exhibited October 28, 2011 through April 22, 2012

In an effort to redefine the term “blacklist”, these portraits of 50 African Americans reclaim the term to be affirming, influential and powerful.

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150th Commemoration of the Civil War:
The Death of Ellsworth

Exhibited April 29, 2011 through March 18, 2012

This exhibition recounts the death of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth in Alexandria, Va. Ellsworth was the first Union officer to be killed in the four-year-long struggle.



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PAST  EXHIBITIONS:
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2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006–2005 | 2004–2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997–1996


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PAST  EXHIBITIONS
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006–2005
2004–2000
1999
1998
1997–1996

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