National Portrait Gallery
Recent Acquisitions
November 18, 2016 – October 30, 2017
This annual exhibition features 29 objects that showcase some of the newest additions to the museum’s collection. Through a wide variety of mediums: paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs and time-based media, you will see figures like Halle Berry, Rosalynn Carter, Consuelo Kanaga, Antonia Pantoja, Wendell Phillips, Reynolds Price, Fred Rogers, Tupac Shakur, and many others in this new installation. These portraits joined more than 24,000 others in the Portrait Gallery’s collection to represent thousands of people who have made a significant impact on the history and culture of America.
Portrait of Beth Levine (Lady with Red Bow) / By Philip Pearlstein (born 24 May 1924) / Oil on canvas, 1985 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
