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Columns at the museum's entrance

Face-to-Face is the National Portrait Gallery's blog, dedicated to art, history, and the telling of American lives.

Oval painting of Abraham Lincoln looking at the viewer

Ivory at the National Portrait Gallery

November 9, 2017

A multicolored painted portrait of a man with white hair

Kurt Delbanco Paints Max Eastman

November 7, 2017

Photograph of a man standing on a wooden crate and wearing a leather jacket

Our Recent Acquisitions

November 6, 2017

Photograph of a man against a black background wearing a food service uniform

Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

November 3, 2017

Photograph of a man with a line across the top of his head

Ghosts of Penn Quarter: Civil War Era Hauntings

October 31, 2017

Black and white photograph of a man playing a trumpet

Celebrating Dizzy's 100th Birthday

October 26, 2017

Sandy Huckleberry: KNOW

October 25, 2017

Photograph of a man staring eerily at the viewer

American Masters of Mystery, Magic, and the Macabre

October 23, 2017

A geometric portrait of a woman with two faces

Writing Workshops Inspired by Sylvia Plath

October 18, 2017

Old photograph of old man looking at the camera

Welcome to the Portrait Gallery, John Quincy Adams

October 12, 2017

Spider-Man and woman wearing Sylvia Plath t-shirt, both of them looking up

Sylvia Plath’s Appearance in "Spider-Man: Homecoming"

October 4, 2017

A painted portrait of a woman holding and interacting with two children

Sarah Weston Seaton and Washington, DC, Around 1815

October 3, 2017

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