Events & Programs


Curator’s Tour: Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction
Saturday, May 17, 2 p.m.
Meet at the exhibition entrance on the second floor.

Senior Historian David Ward leads a tour of the exhibition “Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction.”

Portrait Story Days: Romare Bearden
Saturday, May 24, 1 to 4 p.m.
Sunday, May 25, 2 to 5 p.m.
First floor, education center, room E151
Young visitors and their families may drop in to listen to a story about an influential person in the Portrait Gallery’s collection and create a piece of art inspired by his or her life and portrait.
This program is sponsored in part by the Reinsch Family Education Endowment.

Curator’s Tour: Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction
Saturday, June 14, noon
Meet at the exhibition entrance on the second floor.
Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings Wendy Wick Reaves leads a tour of “Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction.”



National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

April 18, 2014
through January 11, 2015