November 9, 2012 through October 27, 2013
New additions to the Portrait Gallery’s collection are installed in the hall leading from the G Street entrance to the museum to American Origins. The pieces include paintings of Amerigo Vespucci (featured here), Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Adolph Ochs, a bronze sculpture of Ethel Waters and a patinated plaster sculpture of Dwight Eisenhower, photographs of Marjorie Merriweather Post, Mary Pickford and Muhammad Ali and prints of George Washington, Charles Willson Peale, Helena Rubinstein and Samuel Adams.
