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