American Art and Portraiture

Walt Whitman was praising it as the noblest of Washington buildings and its is indeed a fine example of Greek Revival architecture. The building, with a great courtyard in the middle, is hosting two national institutions, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery: the American history through portraits, photographs, artworks.

Unknown Author - Pocahontas

The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball

Alfred Eisenstaedt - Einstein and Oppenheimer, 1947

We Shall Overcome
Unknown Photographer - Theodore M. Hersburgh and Martin Luther King

• James Edward Freeman - The Savoyard Boy in London, 1863
• Naive Art from Brooklyn, NY: Gustave Klumpp - Salute to a Nude
• Winslow Homer - High Cliff, Coast of Maine, 1894
• Degas - Portrait of Mary Cassatt
• Kurt Vonnegut - Selfportrait
• George Inness - September Afternoon
• Julian Alden Weir
• Hip-Hop with a Japanese Touch - Shinique Smith
• Mannahatta
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Only One
• Floyd Davis - Bar in Hôtel Scribe, Paris, 1944
• The Portrait of General Marshall
• Marius de Zayas - The Picnic
• Two Images Related to WWI
• Irving Penn - Five Whitney Artists, 2002
• Milton Avery at the American Art Museum
• Isamu Noguchi - Grey Sun, 1967
• Hopper - People in the Sun, 1960
• Lincoln Gallery
• A Visit to Renwick Gallery
• Two Paintings by Reginald Marsh
• Paul Cadmus, Night in Bologna
• American Avant Garde
• Man Ray at the American Art Museum
• The Day SAAM Got A Head
• American Hall of Wonders
• Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Summer
• John Singer Sargent
• John Singer Sargent, Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler 

And here you have a glimpse of Kogod Courtyard: the atrium in the middle of this palace.






(Washington, District of Columbia)