Fact Sheet: One Life
Media only: Concetta Duncan (202) 633-9989, duncanc@si.edu
Gabrielle Obusek (202) 633-8299, obusekge@si.edu
Summary
The National Portrait Gallery dedicates one full gallery to the biography of a single figure, offering deep scholarship and a chance to showcase different aspects of the person’s life through a wide range of paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, media art and performance. Since 2006, the museum’s series of “One Life” exhibitions have focused on the lives and influences of:
July 1, 2006 – March 11, 2007 One Life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos
March 30, 2007 – Oct. 8, 2007 Portraits of Sandra Day O’Connor
Nov. 2, 2007 – Sept. 28, 2008 One Life: Katharine Hepburn
Nov. 7, 2008 – July 5, 2009 One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
Aug. 7, 2009 – Nov. 29, 2009 One Life: Thomas Paine, The Radical Founding Father
Jan. 8, 2010 – Aug. 29, 2010 One Life: Echoes of Elvis
Oct. 1, 2010 – May 30, 2011 One Life: Katharine Graham
July 1, 2011 – May 28, 2012 One Life: Ronald Reagan
June 29, 2012 – May 27, 2013 One Life: Amelia Earhart
June 28, 2013 – June 1, 2014 One Life: Martin Luther King Jr.
July 4, 2014 – May 5, 2015 One Life: Grant and Lee: “It is well that war is so terrible...”
July 3, 2015 – May 15, 2016 One Life: Dolores Huerta
June 24, 2016 – May 21, 2017 One Life: Babe Ruth
June 30, 2017 – May 20, 2018 One Life: Sylvia Plath
June 29, 2018 – May 19, 2019 One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey
June 28, 2019 – May 17, 2020 One Life: Marian Anderson
Sep. 30, 2022 – April 16, 2023 One Life: Maya Lin
June 16, 2023 – April 21, 2024 One Life: Frederick Douglass
National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery tells the multifaceted story of the United States through the individuals who have shaped American culture. Spanning the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery portrays poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists whose lives tell the nation’s story.
The National Portrait Gallery is located at Eighth and G streets N.W., Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Information: (202) 633-1000. Connect with the museum at npg.si.edu and on Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
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