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"Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits"
Exhibited October 19, 2007–March 2, 2008

"The Presidency and the Cold War"
July 1, 2006–February 24, 2008

Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848
September 27, 2007— Febuary 10, 2008

Temple of Invention: History of a
National Landmark
Exhibited July 1, 2006—January 21, 2008

Portraiture Now: Framing Memory
Exhibited May 25, 2007—January 6, 2008

Portraits of Sandra Day O'Connor
Exhibited March 30—October 8, 2007

Great Britons: Treasures from the
National Portrait Gallery, London
Exhibited April 27—September 3, 2007

Harry Benson: Being There
Exhibited April 27—September 3, 2007

Josephine Baker: Image and Icon
Exhibited Nov. 24, 2006—Mar. 18, 2007

One Life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos
Exhibited July 1, 2006—Mar. 11, 2007

Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawing
Exhibited July 1—Oct. 9, 2006

Retratos:
2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
Traveling exhibition
December 2004—April 2006

Gilbert Stuart
Traveling exhibition
October 2004—July 2005

American Women
Traveling exhibition
June 2002 —July 2005

Women of Our Time:
Twentieth–Century Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery
Traveling exhibition
August 2003—February 2005

A Brush with History
Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery
Traveling exhibition
August 2003—February 2005

Portrait of the Art World
A Century of ARTnews Photographs Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery
Traveling exhibition
September 2002—January 2004

Portraits of the Presidents
from the National Portrait Gallery
Traveling exhibition
October 2000—May 2003

"Tête à Tête:
Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson."
Exhibited October 29 —January 9, 2000.

"A Durable Memento
Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist"
Exhibited September 24 —January 2, 2000

"Edward Sorel
Unauthorized Portraits"
Exhibited July 2, 1999 —January 9, 2000.

"Ernest Hemingway
A Writer in His Time"
Exhibited June 18—January 9, 2000.

"Hans Namuth
Portraits"
Exhibited April 30—September 6, 1999.

"Marilyn Monroe in Korea, 1954
Newly Discovered Photographs
by David Geary."
Exhibited Spring, 1998

"Franklin and His Friends
Portraying the Man of Science in
Eighteenth-Century America."
Exhibited April 16—September 6, 1999.

"The Amistad Case"
Exhibited Spring, 1999

"George and Martha Washington
Portraits from the Presidential Years"
Exhibited February 19—August 8, 1999

"Paul Robeson
Artist and Citizen"
Exhibited January 29—April 18, 1999.

"Philippe Halsman
A Retrospective"
Exhibited November 6, 1998—
February 7, 1999.

"Theodore Roosevelt
Icon of the American Century"
Exhibited October 27, 1998—
February 7, 1999.

"Celebrity Caricature in America"
Exhibited April 10—August 23, 1998.

"George Marshall
Soldier of Peace"
Exhibited November 7, 1997—July 19, 1998.

"The Seneca Falls Convention"
Exhibited Spring, 1998

Edith Wharton's World"
Portraits of People and Places"
Exhibited September 26, 1997—January 25, 1998.

"Mathew Brady's Portraits
Exhibited September 26, 1997—January 4, 1998.

"Breaking Racial Barriers
African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection"
Exhibited January 31—September 14, 1997.

"Le Tumulte Noir
Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio"
Exhibited January 31—September 14, 1997.

"Red, Hot & Blue
A Salute to American Musicals"
Exhibited October 25, 1996—July 6, 1997.

"Louis Armstrong
A Cultural Legacy"
Exhibited July 26—December 1, 1996.

"1846
Portrait of the Nation"
Exhibited April 12—August 18, 1996.

"REBELS
Painters and Poets of the 1950s"
Exhibited April 12—June 2, 1996.

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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