Spring/Summer 2007 Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring/Summer 2007 From the Director by Marc Pachter Marc Pachter Bids NPG Adieu by David C. Ward Commissioning Fund Established in Honor of Marc Pachter The National Portrait Gallery A Poem by Robert Pinsky Historian's Choice: Carleton Fisk Oil on cotton duck by Susan Miller-Havens (born 1944), 1993 by Sidney Hart Curator's Choice: Rachel Carson Gelatin silver print by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1962 by Frank H. Goodyear III Art Meets Chemistry and Preserves History by Julie Heath Book Review Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006), 851 pp. by Amy Henderson Bret Cook in Residence at Duke Ellington School for the Arts by Jobyl A. Boone About Face: Seeing Yourself in the NPG "Face to Face":Beyond the Label Ian Cooke NPG Exhibitions NPG Outreach

Winter 2006–7 Vol. 7, No. 4  Download this issue (PDF)

Winter 2006–7 From the Director by Marc Pachter “To be or not to be. . . ”: Hamlet, Juliet, and Othello at the National Portrait Gallery by Ellen Miles Great Britons: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London April 27 through September 3, 2007 Harry Benson: Being There April 27 through September 3, 2007 NPG Presents Vernon E. Jordan Jr. by Sherri Weil Portraits in Your Pocket by Lauren Hassel Curators's Choice: Edith Gregor Halpert Oil on canvas by Marguerite Zorach, c. 1930 by Brandon Brame Fortune Historian's Choice: Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston Albumen silver print by D. J. Ryan (1837–?), 1870 by James G. Barber Book Review David Finley: Quiet Force for America’s Arts by David A. Doheny (Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2006), 392 pp. by Margaret C. S. Christman Richardson Symposium Convenes Artists and Scholars Paul Peck Presidential Awards: Leon Panetta and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. NPG Exhibitions NPG Outreach

Fall, 2006 Vol. 7, Nos. 2–3  Download this issue (PDF)

Fall 2006 From the Director by Marc Pachter A New Daguerreotype: Our Landmark Building by Ann Shumard Portrait of an Opening A "Perfect" Ending to the First Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Andrea Baer A Celebration Broadcast in Verse by David C. Ward Book Review Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 1,280 pp. by Sidney Hart Historian's Choice: Gloria Swanson Platinum print by Karl Struss, 1919 by Amy Henderson Editors's Choice: Thomas Tudor Tucker Chalk on prepared paper by Charles Blathazar Julien Févret de Saint-Memin, 1805, gift of Cynthia Beverly Tucker Kimbrough Barlowe by Dru Dowdy NPG at Home NPG in Demand Conference on "Walt Whitman, a kosmos"

Spring/Summer, 2006 Vol. 7, No. 1  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring/Summer 2006 From the Director by Marc Pachter National Portrait Gallery Opening Exhibitions NPG Presents the Clintons' Portraits by Bethany Morookian Bentley Portrait Competition Winners Selected Moving Daze Ellen G. Miles NPG's Reopening Brings New Publications by Dru Dowdy Portrait of a MVSEVM by Anne Collins Goodyear Book Review The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner (Nashville, Tennessee: W Publishing Group, 2004), 298 pp. Sneak a Peek at NPG's New Education Center Programs!

Winter, 2005-6 Vol. 6, No. 4  Download this issue (PDF)

Winter 2005-6 From the Director by Marc Pachter Sneak Peek:  American Origins, 1600–1900 by Ellen Miles The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture by Bethany Morookian Bentley 2005 Paul Peck Presidential Awards Howard H. Baker Jr. and Hugh Sidey Americans Now Portrait Competition Moves Forward Book Review: Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim by Mary V. Dearborn (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 382 pp. by Jennifer Bauman Curator's Choice: Plenty Coups Gelatin silver print by Willem Wildschut, c. 1921 gift of Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation, Beatrice and James Taylor by Frank Goodyear III Historian's Choice: Charlotte Cushman Oil on canvas by William Page, 1853 by Frederick S. Voss Adopt-A-Portrait: Launching a New Initiative by Sherri Weil NPG Reopening Exhibitions

Summer/Fall, 2005 Vol. 6, No. 2  Download this issue (PDF)

Summer/Fall 2005 From the Director by Marc Pachter Sneak Peek at America's Presidents A Preview of Our Grand Reopening, July 2006 Sneak Peek at "The Cold War and the Presidency" A Preview of Our Grand Reopening, July 2006 Twentieth-Century Sportswomen by Amy Baskette Book Review: Monument Man: Three New Biographies of George Washington reviewed by Sidney Hart The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium: Gilbert Stuart Book Review: Monument Man: Three New Biographies of George Washington reviewed by Sidney Hart Schedules & Information NPG in Town Schedules & Information NPG in Demand

Spring, 2005 Vol. 6, No. 1  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring 2005 From the Director by Marc Pachter Poets and Portraits by Ellen G. Miles 1855: A Poetic Crossroads by David C. Ward Best Face Forward!  Announcing the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 by Brandon Brame Fortune Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Eye to Eye by Frank H. Goodyear III NPG's Ellen Miles is the 2004 Secretary's Distinguished Research Lecturer Book Review: Chronicles: Volume I by Bob Dylan reviewed by Carol Wyrick NPG Around Town Sneak Peek NPG in Demand

Winter, 2004–05 Vol. 5, No. 4  Download this issue (PDF)

Winter 2004–5 From the Director by Marc Pachter Curator's Choice: The Scottsboro Boys by Wendy Wick Reaves Historian's Choice: Henry Laurens by Magaret C. S. Christman Garbo Lives! by Amy Henderson Book Review: Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of "Birds of America" by William Souder reviewed by E. Warren Perry Jr. Book Review: Portraiture by Shearer West reviewed by Anne Collins Goodyear Book Review: Daniel Boone: An American Life by Michael A. Lofaro reviewed by Eileen Kim Paul Peck Presidential Awards Then & Now: Vacancy on the Court by Margaret C. S. Christman NPG Schedules and Information From the Curator's Bookshelf: Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic by David C. Ward

Fall, 2004 Vol. 5, No. 3  Download this issue (PDF)

Fall 2004 From the Director by Marc Pachter Time Covers the Candidates by Sidney Hart The Editorial Cartoon as Portraiture by Wendy Wick Reaves New Acquisitions by Jessica Hoffman The American Presidents by Marc Pachter Gilbert Stuart: The Exhibition by Ellen G. Miles Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin-American Portraits by Carolyn Kinder Carr Paul Peck Presidential Initiative

Summer, 2004 Vol. 5, No. 2  Download this issue (PDF)

Summer 2004 From the Director by Marc Pachter Nobel Prizewinners in Science and Medicine by Anne Collins Goodyear Book Review: Arthur Miller: His life and Work by Martin Gottfried reviewed by Jessica Hoffman Book Review: Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit by Betsy Harvey Kraft reviewed by James G. Barber Curator's Choice: Thomas Edison by Wendy Wick Reaves Titian Ramsay Peale: and the Great U.S. South Seas Exploring Expedition by Sidney Hart A Moment in American Science by Ann M. Shumard Science in Our Lives: American Research Pioneers by Carol Wyrick

Spring, 2004 Vol. 5, No. 1  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring 2004 From the Director by Marc Pachter Miguel Covarrubias and Celebrity Caricature by Wendy Wick Reaves We Love You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah: Beatlemania Hits America by Frederick S. Voss Doing the Beatles for Time by Frederick S. Voss Leaping to the West Max Waldman Photographs Dancers Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov by Frank H. Goodyear III Brown v. Board of Education: A Decision that Changed America by Frederick S. Voss NPG–London: A Reflection of the People by Tia Powell Harris Two Prominent Paintings Much in Demand Book Review: Jefferson Davis, Confederate President by Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer reviewed by Michael Fox Edgar P. Richardson Symposium by Wendy Wick Reaves Farewell Fred!

Winter, 2003 Vol. 4, No. 4  Download this issue (PDF)

Winter 2003 From the Director by Marc Pachter Pilots, Prophets and Portraits: Highlights from a Century of Powered Flight by Anne Collins Goodyear The Wright Image: Putting a Face on Inventive Genius by Frederick S. Voss The Thrill of Spaceflight by Roger D. Launius Book Review: Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age, by David A. Clary reviewed by Anne Collins Goodyear Curator's Choice: Solomon Andrews by Ann M. Shumard The National Portrait Gallery Commission: A Brief Look Back by Margaret C. S. Christman Charles Lindbergh: Symbol for an Age by David C. Ward Paul Peck Presidential Awards

Fall, 2003 Vol. 4, No. 3  Download this issue (PDF)

Fall 2003 From the Director by Marc Pachter Designing Woman: Edith Head in Hollywood by Amy Henderson Who's Wearing the Pants? The Transition from Knee-Breeches to Trousers by Linda Thrift Fashion Trends at NPG: Women's Wear Daily Take Note by Frederick S. Voss Director's Circle Purchase: Henry Clay Portrait Studies Curator's Choice: Clyde Beatty by Frank H. Goodyear III Book Reviews: * Diana Vreeland by Eleanor Dwight reviewed by Jennifer O'Keefe * The Skeptic—A Life of H.L. Mencken by Terry Teachout reviewed by John Daniel Reaves Historian's Choice: Isaac Singer by Margaret Christman

Summer, 2003 Vol. 4, No. 2  Download this issue (PDF)

Summer 2003 From the Director by Marc Pachter To the Pacific: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806 by David C. Ward A Land Deal We Couldn't Pass Up The Louisiana Purchase by Frederick S. Voss Framing the West at Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Elizabeth Chew Book Reviews: Summer Reading; New Biographies of: * Billy Wilder * Benjamin Franklin * W.E.B. Du Bois

Spring, 2003 Vol. 4, No. 1  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring 2003 From the Director by Marc Pachter Alice Neel: Sight and Insight by Carolyn Kinder Carr Q & A: Interview with Portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler Everett Raymond Kinstler and Brandon Brame Fortune Structure with Soul: Patent Office Building Photo Essay by Amy R. Boles Historian's Choice: John Updike by Frederick S. Voss Curator's Choice: Willem de Kooning by Wendy Wick Reaves Picturing Business in America: Hedcuts in the Wall Street Journal, an Online Exhibition by Anne Collins Goodyear Thanks for the Memories: Bob Hope Hits 100 by Amy Henderson

Winter, 2002 Vol. 3, No. 4  Download this issue (PDF)

Winter 2002 From the Director by Marc Pachter The Bowman–Kahn Collection Twentieth–Century Self–Portraits by Wendy Wick Reaves Paul Peck Presidential Awards by Sidney Hart Education Events Highlight Winners by Carol Wyrick Historian's Choice : Pocahontas by James G. Barber Book Review: Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention by Charles M. Joseph by Eowyn May McHenry Boochever Gift to Fund National Portrait Competition by Brandon Brame Fortune and Patrick Madden Portrait Gallery Sponsors Panel on Presidential Biography by Frederick Voss

Fall, 2002 Vol. 3, No. 3  Download this issue (PDF)

Fall 2002 From the Director by Marc Pachter Of Yeggs and Other Miscreants: Searching the Pinkerton Files by Frederick S. Voss WANTED: John Dillinger by Frank H. Goodyear III Hollywood Rogues, Rapscallions, and Hard-Hearted Dames by Amy Henderson Curator's Choice : John Wilkes Booth by Ann M. Shumard Historian's Choice: Benedict Arnold by Margaret C. S. Christman New NPG Publications by Dru Dowdy NPG Takes Its Educational Initiative Into America's Classroom by Felice Pulles

Summer, 2002 Vol. 3, No. 2  Download this issue (PDF)

Summer 2002 From the Director by Marc Pachter Vouching for Eudora by Roger Mudd George Washington: Military Paradox by George Athan Billias Curator's Choice : Robert E. Lee by Frank H. Goodyear III Historian's Choice : Chester Nimitz by David C. Ward Q & A: A Puzzle Solved: An Interview with Senior Historian Fred Voss by Dru Dowdy Book Reviews: The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson and Sherman: A Soldier's Life by Lee Kennett reviewed by Sidney Hart NPG on the Road

Spring, 2002 Vol. 3, No. 1  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring 2002 From the Director by Marc Pachter Conservation of NPG Miniatures by Ellen G. Miles and Brandon Brame Fortune Book Review : Edna St. Vincent Millay by Bandon Brame Fortune Curator's Choice : Red Cloud and Othniel C. Marsh by Frank H. Goodyear III Historian's Choice : Marilyn Monroe by Frederick S. Voss Eye Contact: Looking at Twentieth-Century Portraiture by Wendy Wick Reaves Exhibiting ARTnews Photographs

Winter, 2001 Vol. 2, No. 4  Download this issue (PDF)

Winter 2001 From the Director by Marc Pachter The Real "Thin Man:" Dashiell Hammett by Sarah Loffman The Dark Side of a Literary Light: Dorothy Parker by Tess Mann Langston Hughes in Washington, D.C. by Arnold Rampersad CivilWar@Smithsonian / New Website by James G. Barber The Dolphin and the Fish : Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop by David C. Ward

Fall, 2001 Vol. 2, No. 3  Download this issue (PDF)

Fall 2001 From the Director by Marc Pachter John Adams by David McCullough by Sidney Hart Edward Steichen Images by Ann Shumard NPG Pilot Program at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts by Felice Pulles NPG Goes International by Claire Kelly Q & A: Interview with Douglas Evelyn Dougals Evelyn and Anne Christensen

Summer, 2001 Vol. 2, No. 2  Download this issue (PDF)

Summer 2001 From the Director by Marc Pachter "Lansdowne Acquisition" George Washington by Gilbert Stuart by Ellen G. Miles Strokes of Fortune / Collection Stories by Margaret C. S. Christman Behind the Scenes Gifts, Bequests, and Purchases by Ellen G. Miles Q & A: Interview with Indian Peace Medals Collector Lloyd Schermer Lloyd Schermer and Fredrick Voss From Exhibition to Acquisition by Beverly J. Cox Extraordinary Works, Some Generous Friends by Patrick M. Madden

Spring, 2001 Vol. 2, No. 1  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring 2001 From the Director by Marc Pachter Collection Highlights: Celebrating Women by Brandon Brame Fortune Q & A: Interview with Barbara Novak Barbara Novak and Wendy Wick Reaves Historian's Choice: Maria Callas by Frederick Voss Curator's Choice: Jesse Owens by Ann Shumard Making Paper Picture Perfect by Rosemary Fallon and Emily Jacobson Portrait of an Artist : Sarah Miriam Peale by Tess Mann

Winter, 2000 Vol. 1, No. 4  Download this issue (PDF)

Winter 2000 From the Director by Marc Pachter "Whose Life Is It Anyhow?" by Marc Pachter Then & Now: The Public Life by Sidney Hart Appearances are Deceiving: Henry James by David C. Ward Curator's Choice: George Washington by Ellen G. Miles Q & A: On Writing Biography Carolyn Carr and David Levering Lewis

Fall, 2000 Vol. 1, No. 3  Download this issue (PDF)

Fall 2000 From the Director by Marc Pachter Collecting the Presidents by Frederick Voss Then & Now: Presidents' Sons and Vice Presidents by Sidney Hart Historian's Choice : Abraham Lincoln by James G. Barber Curator's Choice: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Brandon Brame Fortune Acquisitions, Samuel Griffin: Unraveling a Mistaken Identity by Margaret C. S. Christman Q & A: Interview with Linda Thrift of the Center for Electronic Research and Outreach Services Ellen Miles and Linda Thrift

Summer, 2000 Vol. 1, No. 2  Download this issue (PDF)

Summer 2000 From the Director by Marc Pachter Acquisitions : Indian Peace Medals by Ellen G. Miles Historian's Choice : Ethel Merman by Amy Henderson Curators's Choice : Agnes Ernst Meyer by Wendy Wick Reaves Then & Now / Mantle vs. Maris by Sidney Hart Q & A: Interview with Peale Family Papers Editor, Sidney Hart Dru Dowdy and Sidney Hart

Spring, 2000 Vol. 1, No. 1  Download this issue (PDF)

Spring 2000 From the Director by Alan Fern Historian's Choice: Daniel Webster by Frederick Voss Curator's Choice: Rosa Parks by Mary Panzer Then & Now / Primary Election Upsets, Recent and Past by Sidney Hart Q & A: Interview with Curator of Exhibitions Beverly Cox Beverly Cox and Brandon Fortune Acquisitions : Thomas Jefferson by Mather Brown and John F. Kennedy by Elaine de Kooning