Annual Report - National Portrait Gallery

National Portr ait Gallery
Annual Report
October 1, 2009–September 30, 2010
National Portr ait Gallery
Annual Report
October 1, 2009–September 30, 2010
From the Director 4
Exhibitions 5
Publications 8
Conservation 9
The Virtual NPG 10
Education 12
Scholarly Contributions
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Media Coverage 15
Donations to the Collection 16
Donors 18
Financial Summary 20
Commissioners, Senior Staff, Curators,
and Historians 22
Photography Credits 23
From the Director
T
he National Portrait Gallery marked another fiscal year full of
extraordinary exhibitions and fascinating people.
At the place where art, history, and biography intersect, we
opened eight exhibitions at home and two on the road. One of
these, the triennial “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition,”
featured works by forty-nine artists from around the country,
including the winner, Dave Woody. It was also featured in an
award-winning Smithsonian Spotlight television program,
“Making a Winning Portrait.” The program won a Platinum Remi
Award, first prize in the talk-show category, at the forty-third
WorldFest-Houston Independent International Film Festival.
In addition to exhibitions, the museum created a great number
of educational programs that reached thousands of people—
visitors who enter our physical doors, as well as a larger audience
who explore our virtual museum.
This year the National Portrait Gallery extended its online
audience through iTunes U, which allows the downloading of free
recorded talks, lectures, and programs from a variety of sources.
In the past fiscal year, podcasts from the Portrait Gallery were
downloaded more than 600,000 times.
The museum’s Commissioners, staff, and consultants have developed a strategic plan that will give the
Portrait Gallery specific guidance for the next five years and a vision for the future. It tracks the priorities
established by the Smithsonian Institution’s overall plan. I am proud of this exciting collaborative effort and
look forward to sharing the completed results with you.
The museum was the beneficiary of generous financial support this fiscal year, as well as donations of
art; both are listed later in this document. One highlight was a partnership with the Smithsonian’s Asian
Pacific American Heritage Program. Many donors contributed a portrait of former cabinet secretary
Norman Mineta, which was presented in a ceremony that recognized his contributions to American history
and culture.
The National Portrait Gallery is a public-private partnership, and raising private funds is essential to our
everyday operations, exhibitions, and programs. The Presidents’ Circle, a membership group that has grown
extensively in the past year, is one avenue for individual involvement in funding critical activities.
In the pages that follow, I am sure you will find interesting and helpful information about the Portrait
Gallery’s many activities in FY 2010. Thank you for your continuing interest and support.
Martin Sullivan
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Exhibitions
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009
October 23, 2009, through September 7, 2010
In 2009 the National Portrait Gallery held its second triennial portrait
competition. With a grand prize of $25,000 and an opportunity to create a
work for the Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection, the competition invited
artists to submit portraits of people close to them, in the medium of their
choice, including painting, photography, and video. The juried competition
resulted in an exhibition of forty-nine of the finalists’ works and the selection
of David Woody’s photograph Laura as the winner. Brandon Brame Fortune,
curator of painting and sculpture, is the competition director and curator of the
exhibition.
“Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition”
Portraiture Now: Communities
November 6, 2009, through July 5, 2010
This latest incarnation of “Portraiture Now” continued NPG’s series presenting
a myriad of approaches to contemporary portraiture. In this installation, each
of the three painters explored the enduring power of personal communities
through a series of portraits of friends, townspeople, or families. Rose Frantzen
portrayed 180 people from her hometown of Maquoketa, Iowa. Jim Torok
painted meticulous small-scale oil-on-panel portraits of fellow artists from New
York, as well as a series of paintings documenting three generations of a single
family. Rebecca Westcott, until her untimely death, created subtle, full-length
images of her peers that merge expressive style and a love for the handmade
with a gritty street-art vibe. Curators were Brandon Brame Fortune, curator of
painting and sculpture; Anne Collins Goodyear, associate curator of prints and
drawings; and Frank H. Goodyear III, associate curator of photographs. The
exhibition was funded by The Ceres Trust.
“Portraiture Now: Communities”
New Arrivals
November 20, 2009, through November 14, 2010
The nearly thirty works displayed in this installation span more than two
centuries of American history and culture. The breadth of works includes
paintings of nineteenth-century statesman Daniel Webster by George Linen
and a self-portrait by William Beckman; sketch drawings of astronauts Bob
Crippen, John Young, and John Glenn by Henry Casselli; and photographs
of singers Enrico Caruso, Lena Horne, and Selena, broadcaster Edward R.
Murrow, and Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach with player Bob Cousy.
“New Arrivals”
One Life: Echoes of Elvis
January 8 through August 29, 2010
“One Life: Echoes of Elvis” opened on January 8, 2010, marking the seventyfifth anniversary of Elvis Presley’s birth. Although Elvis died more than thirty
years ago, the world remains fascinated with his image and music. His records
have continued to sell by the millions, and public interest in him has yet to
subside. Artists such as Ralph Wolfe Cowan and Red Grooms have created
mythical, spiritual, and earthly images of the man whose legacy includes
multiple superlative moments in music, entertainment, life, and afterlife. To
this day, Elvis is the subject of poetry, literature, music, film, and the visual
arts. Curated by NPG researcher E. Warren Perry, the exhibition was supported
by the Guenther and Siewchin Yong Sommer Endowment Fund.
Warren Perry in the “One Life: Echoes of Elvis” exhibition
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Exhibitions
From FDR to Obama: Presidents on Time
February 12 through September 6, 2010
There is no magic formula for getting one’s picture on the cover
of Time magazine, with one exception: become president of
the United States. Founded in 1923, Time has put on its cover
all incumbent presidents from Warren Harding to Barack
Obama, with the exception of Herbert Hoover. Beginning
with Franklin Roosevelt, this exhibition explored the modern
presidency through the covers of America’s oldest and most
recognized weekly news magazine. The show included
thirty-two works of presidential cover art, representing a
wide variety of mediums, from traditional oil paintings to a
pop-art sculpture bust of Richard Nixon made from strips
of newspaper headlines. NPG historian and Time collection
curator James Barber served as exhibition curator. The
exhibition was supported by the Marc Pachter Exhibition Fund.
“From FDR to Obama: Presidents on Time”
Glimpse of the Past: A Neighborhood Evolves
March 5, 2010, through September 25, 2011
“Glimpse of the Past” tells the story of the rise, fall, and rebirth
of Penn Quarter—the section of downtown Washington
north of Pennsylvania Avenue between Fifth and Ninth
Streets—from the perspective of one of the neighborhood’s
enduring monuments: the Old Patent Office Building, which
today houses the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and
American Art Museum. From its steps, a view back through
time reveals a neighborhood ambitiously growing up along
muddy streets; a heyday of rattling trolleys and department
stores with glowing holiday display windows; a tableau of
smoke, broken glass, rioters, and soldiers that left downtown
abandoned to crime and drugs; and the human faces, from
dedicated politicians to risk-taking developers to pioneering
preservationists who have all made downtown what it is today:
the vibrant heart of Washington.
“Glimpse of the Past: A Neighborhood Evolves”
Americans Now
August 20, 2010, through June 19, 2011
Centered on works from the Portrait Gallery’s collection,
“Americans Now” presents today’s faces in a variety of forms
and media, from paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs
to digital and generative video projections. Many of the
subjects are famous—including LeBron James, LL Cool J,
Toni Morrison, Willie Nelson, Conan O’Brian, Martha
Stewart—and others are not. Instead they are outstanding
individuals in the realms of science, business, government, and
the arts. “Americans Now” is supported by the Marc Pachter
Exhibition Fund.
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“Americans Now”
Exhibitions
Traveling Exhibition
Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits
from the American West, 1845–1924
San Diego Historical Society—March 12 through
June 6, 2010
Gilcrease Museum—October 9, 2010, through
January 2, 2011
The American West was dramatically reconstituted during
the eighty years between the Mexican War and the passage
of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. This exhibition, which
told the story of these changes through one hundred portrait
photographs of the defining men and women of this period,
traveled to San Diego and Tulsa after closing in Washington.
Special events, including private tours led by NPG curator
Frank Goodyear, kicked off the exhibition in both cities.
Smithsonian National Board member Valerie Anders and
her husband William hosted a luncheon for more than forty
people in conjunction with the opening in San Diego.
“Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924”
Permanent Collection Updates
“The Struggle for Justice,” a new exhibition on the second
floor, focuses on the figures who were important catalysts
for change in the twentieth century concerning the status
of African Americans, women, Native Americans, gays, and
the disabled. Documentary film footage of historic protests
and marches rounds out the exhibition. Seen together, this
collection of portraits and moving images highlights the
stories of these remarkable leaders and refocuses attention on
the historic campaigns for equal rights in American society.
“The Struggle for Justice”
In May, the “Athenaeum” portraits of George and Martha
Washington by Gilbert Stuart were returned to the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, for three years as part of our joint
ownership agreement.
Two permanent collection galleries, “Twentieth-Century
Americans, 1950–1980,” and “Contemporary Americans, 1980
to Present,” were reinstalled in May.
“Twentieth-Century Americans, 1950–1980”
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Publications
The Portrait Gallery’s publications continue to win awards for
both design and content. Faces of the Frontier: Photographic
Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924 (University of
Oklahoma Press, 2009) by Frank H. Goodyear III tied for first
place for illustrated text design and received third place for
illustrated cover design in the Washington Book Publishers’ 2010
Design Competition. It was also one of three finalists for the best
nonfiction book in the High Plains Book Awards.
Portrait Gallery publications also received awards in two
categories in the prestigious American Association of Museums’
Publications Design Competition: an honorable mention in the
category of exhibition catalogues for Inventing Marcel Duchamp:
The Dynamics of Portraiture by Anne Collins Goodyear and
James W. McManus, and an honorable mention in the category
of educational resources for the Presidents in Waiting Interactive
Exhibition Guide that accompanied the 2009 exhibition. The
Duchamp book also received an honorable mention for content
from the Association of Art Museum Curators.
During FY 2010, the office produced and published the Outwin
Boochever Portrait Competition 2009 (University of Washington
Press) to accompany the exhibition. Publications also produced
Behind the Portrait: Gifts to the National Portrait Gallery for the
Development Office. The booklet is unique: not only does it
celebrate donors of all kinds to the museum, but it also features
the donors’ stories that explain why they gave gifts of money,
time, and art to the Portrait Gallery. The booklet is distributed to
various friends of the museum.
Four books are in various stages of production during 2010: Hide/
Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan
D. Katz and David C. Ward (Smithsonian Books, 2010); Calder’s
Portraits: A New Language by Barbara Zabel (Smithsonian
Institution Scholarly Press, 2011); Capital Portraits: Treasures from
Washington Private Collections (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly
Press, 2011); and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories by Wanda M.
Corn and Tirza True Latimer (University of California Press, 2011).
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Conservation
The conservation lab, located in the Lunder Conservation Center, continues to examine and treat the
museum’s extensive collections. The department
has treated or examined more than three hundred
objects for various exhibitions, pending acquisitions,
loans, and the permanent collection, including the
examination of a large gift of 138 Time cover artworks
by Boris Chaliapin.
With the combined efforts of the conservation
staff and curatorial departments, a Smithsonian
Collections Care and Preservation Grant for $110,000
was awarded to the Department of Prints and
Drawings and the Department of Photographs. The
grant provides support to have approximately thirty
objects from the Portrait Gallery’s collection treated.
Lunder Conservation Center
In an effort to collaborate with other institutions
and provide educational experiences in the field
of conservation, the lab has mentored several
conservation interns from Winterthur and American
University in paper and paintings conservation and in
mat cutting.
The department, which is located in a completely
visible lab, continues to provide the public with an
interesting and exciting educational experience.
Guided tours of the Lunder Conservation Center are
given every Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. The
Conservation Department started a new initiative this
fiscal year to provide conservation clinics to the public
on the first Tuesday of each month. This free service
allows the public to make an appointment for expert
advice regarding the condition of their individual
works of art.
Paper conservator Rosemary Fallon at work in the Lunder Conservation Center
Mat cutter Edmund Myers with pre-conservation intern Blair Bailey in the Lunder
Conservation Center
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The Virtual NPG
NPG added six new features to the website this year related to special
exhibitions and permanent collection installations:
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Exhibition and
People’s Choice Award
The competition’s People’s Choice Award was hosted online. A
component of the exhibition was the Portrait of an Artist segment
featuring artist’s journals and musings about life and art.
Portraiture Now: Communities
The site features an expanded section of twenty portraits of the
residents of Maquoketa, Iowa, by artist Rose Frantzen. A specially
developed recording, “Voice of Maquoketa” by John Frantzen,
accompanies the online exhibition.
One Life: Echoes of Elvis
The “Echoes of Elvis” website features an interpretive essay by curator
Warren Perry, eleven portraits accompanied by labels and descriptive
captions, a slideshow of the exhibition galleries, and information
about the installation.
The Struggle for Justice
This website is intended not only to complement the exhibition but
also to serve as a teaching tool for those interested in the crusade for
equal rights. The introduction features Soledad O’Brien narrating six
video presentations created especially for “The Struggle for Justice.”
The gallery section of the site includes portraits of twenty-two civil
rights figures. Also featured is a slideshow of the actual exhibition, a
portrait index, lesson plans, web links, and a reading list.
Glimpse of the Past: A Neighborhood Evolves
The accompanying website is presented as a scrapbook and includes
twenty-one historic and contemporary photographs of the vital Penn
Quarter neighborhood.
Americans Now
This website includes twenty-one contemporary portraits (with
enlargements), interpretive text, full captions, and nineteen video
clips from Lincoln Schatz’s Esquire’s Portrait of the Twenty-first
Century.
Nearly one hundred Face-to-Face blog articles were posted to the
museum’s website this year, commemorating people and events that
included Julia Child, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John Wooden, Lena
Horne, Dorothy Height, and Michael Jackson. Blog articles also
discussed portraits of Edgar Allan Poe, Chester A. Arthur, Davy
Crockett, and James Monroe, among many others.
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The Virtual NPG
The Portrait Gallery now has more than one hundred podcasts
available on its website and iTunes U. Podcasts of Face-to-Face
portrait talks range in subject matter from Thomas Jefferson, the
Civil War and Stonewall Jackson, Domingo Ghirardelli, Red Cloud,
Zitkala-Ša, Mark Twain, and Booker T. Washington to Jules Feiffer,
John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Lena Horne, and artist Jim Torok.
NPG’s Facebook fans surpassed the 5,000 mark in FY2010. We added
daily posts about programs, exhibitions, and collections-related
topics on our Facebook and Twitter sites. Several short features
commemorating people and events in American history are also
posted weekly on the Facebook site, as well as links to NPG blog
articles, podcasts, and videos.
NPG added fifteen video productions on YouTube this year. “Portraits
Alive! 2010—Meet the Cast” includes interviews with our Teen
Ambassadors and excerpts of their “Portraits Alive!” programs. Other
YouTube offerings include the Edgar P. Richardson Symposium
on “Echoes of Elvis”; the Norman Mineta portrait presentation;
Rosalynn Carter at a Portrait Gallery book-signing; an interview with
Marilyn Horne; and features about the artists in “Portraiture Now:
Communities”: Rose Frantzen, Jim Torok, and Rebecca Westcott. A
video interview of Dorothy Height by former museum director Marc
Pachter was a timely and moving addition to the website, as Height
died in 2010. The interview was recorded at the Portrait Gallery in
1997 as part of its Living Self-Portrait program.
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Education
The Education Department’s goal is to ensure that all visitors to the
Portrait Gallery have a rich and rewarding experience. Using our
exhibitions as a catalyst, the department brings the collection to
life through interactive school tours, adult tours, adult and family
programming, and outreach efforts. This fiscal year, the department
reached more than 38,500 people through various programming
initiatives.
A new initiative for this fiscal year, funded by the Smithsonian
Women’s Committee, is the Portrait Discovery Kit. Visitors can
borrow a tote bag filled with interactive activities from the education
center. The kits include ideas on looking at and discussing portraits,
writing labels, and drawing a portrait.
The National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait Discovery Kit
The education staff worked with theater students from the University
of Maryland to give performances to visitors over the course of two
weekends. Students selected an individual from the collection and
created a short, first-person monologue. The students dressed as
portrait sitters and gave the performances next to the artwork.
The success of these performances led the department to partner with
the University of Maryland’s theater department on a seed grant. The
grant was awarded, and the program will be expanded in the coming
year. This program will partner with the existing Teen Ambassador
program, which follows a similar format for teenaged participants.
Teen Ambassador Justin Chaney as Ira Aldridge
The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art
Museum offered several collaborative programs for visitors. The 1929
classic horror film Nosferatu was presented with the debut of a live
original jazz score by the Thad Wilson Group. A presentation of the
1923 silent film Salome, the saga of King Herod’s execution of John
the Baptist, was accompanied by a live score by Silent Orchestra.
In addition to these new initiatives, the department continued to
offer the popular Cultures in Motion programs, the weekly Face-toFace talks, teacher workshops, school tours, family days, and the film
series Reel Portraits. Highlights are below.
Teen Ambassador Tiana Long as Marian Anderson
—The volunteer docent corps led tours of the permanent collection
and special exhibitions daily and interacted with thousands of visitors
during the course of the year.
—One of the six Cultures in Motion performance programs this
year was presented in partnership with the National Museum of
African American History and Culture. Titled “Words between Two
Reformers: Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt,” the
program was presented as a part of Black History Month. Actors
Ysaye Barnwell and Linda Kenyon performed the respective roles of
Bethune and Roosevelt as advocates of social change.
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“Portraiture Now: Communities” Family Day
Education
—Gallery360 is a conversation about portraits located
in one gallery. The program is led by the artist who
made the portraits, and he or she describes the
process that goes into creating the works.
—The Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum
collaborated to celebrate baseball with a visit from
Washington Nationals players and mascots. The two
museums also teamed up for Presidential Family
Day with hands-on activities, performances, and
reenactors, from George Washington to Abraham
Lincoln. A music-filled family day called “Elvis Is in
the Building”—inspired by the exhibition “Echoes of
Elvis”—featured activities such as decorating a paper
guitar and an Elvis costume contest.
Nationals baseball players Sean Burnett and Adam Kennedy at Baseball Family Day
—The weekly Face-to-Face program is designed to
offer more biographical information about a selected
sitter and artist than is available on a label. Outreach
has been increased through an expanded online
presence: since December 2009, recordings of our
talks and lectures have averaged more than 50,000
downloads per month via our podcasts and iTunes U.
—The department also provides professional development workshops for teachers. Integrating portraiture
into the classroom provides exciting opportunities
to connect students with history, biography, visual
art, and many other subjects. This year the museum
offered seven teacher development programs,
including a joint program with the National Museum
of Women in the Arts. This daylong workshop
focusing on both institutions’ permanent collections
featured the work of women artists and sitters.
Elvis costume contest participants, “Elvis Is in the Building” Friends and Family Day
—The department continues to oversee the museum’s
internship program. This year sixty interns worked
with Portrait Gallery staff.
Education programs are supported by the Reinsch
Family Endowment, the Reed Foundation, the Ford
Motor Company Fund, and the Smithsonian Women’s
Committee.
Kailyn James Cesare participates in the art-making activity during “Elvis Is in the
Building” Friends and Family Day
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Scholarly Contributions
Symposia
The Edgar P. Richardson Fund sponsored the symposium
“Echoes of Elvis,” held in March 2010. Steve Wright (Catholic
University), Roy Brewer (University of Memphis), Mark
Russell (independent historian), Tanya Jung (University of
Pennsylvania), and Warren Perry (NPG) were the featured
speakers, and the program was webcast from the Nan Tucker
McEvoy Auditorium. Symposium proceedings are to be
published in 2011 by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.
The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium series is an ongoing
program at the National Portrait Gallery, sponsored by a
generous gift from Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
Published Works and Lectures
Curator of Painting and Sculpture Brandon Fortune presented
“What’s New at the Old Patent Office” to the Portrait Society of
America.
Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings Anne Goodyear
presented “Science, Technology, and Self in Recent Portraiture,”
Contemporary History Colloquium, National Air and Space
Museum, Washington, D.C., October 2009.
Anne Goodyear presented “Jean Crotti’s Portrait de Marcel
Duchamp sur mésure: History, Originality, and the Use of
Technologies of Reproduction for the Creation and Study of Art
of the Recent Past,” panel and presentation done jointly with
James W. McManus, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
annual meeting, Atlanta, November 2009.
Anne Goodyear presented “Duchamp’s Perspective,” Society
for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting, Atlanta,
November 2009.
Anne Goodyear presented “Andy Warhol’s Rain Machine/Marcel
Duchamp’s Rain Room: A Mirrorical Return?” for the symposium
accompanying “Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp /Andy Warhol,”
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, September 2010.
Associate Curator of Photographs Frank Goodyear presented
the lecture “We’re Not Alone: The Case of an Early Unknown
Photograph of Shoshone Falls,” Western History Association
annual meeting, October 2009.
Frank Goodyear chaired the session “Frontier Encounters:
Citizenship and Belonging in Western Photographic Portraits,”
American Studies Association, November 2009.
Frank Goodyear presented the lecture, “Portraiture in the
Photography of the Nineteenth-Century American West,”
Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., November 2009.
Frank Goodyear presented “An Early Photograph of Shoshone
Falls: Uncovering a Network of Communities in 1870s Idaho,”
Timothy O’Sullivan Symposium, Smithsonian American Art
Museum, April 2010.
Historian Amy Henderson gave a lecture titled “Andy Warhol
and the Changing Face of Fame,” The Mattress Factory,
Pittsburgh, January 2010.
Henderson wrote “The Flashpoint of Fame,” an introductory
essay in Elvis at 21: Alfred Wertheimer Photographs.
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Henderson gave a lecture titled “The Flashpoint of Fame,”
Shenandoah Museum of Art, July 2010.
Henderson wrote the script for the Kennedy Center’s Spring
Gala, “Roger Stevens Centennial,” May 2010.
Henderson wrote the script for a three-day celebration of music
titled “An American Songbook,” which was presented at the
Kennedy Center in July 2010.
Curator of Prints and Drawings Wendy Wick Reaves delivered
a paper on Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” image of Barack Obama,
American Studies Association, November 2009.
Reaves guest-edited the issue on “Collecting Popular Culture” for
Material Matters, an electronic publication of the Smithsonian’s
Material Culture Forum.
Historian David C. Ward wrote an introduction to the exhibition
“Labyrinths of the Mind: Elizabeth Huey as History Painter,” held
at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach,
August 2010.
Ward gave a lecture on “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in
American Portraiture” to the Smithsonian Congress of Scholars,
September 2010.
Ward published an essay on the 1950s called “Moving Targets” in
PNReview 195 (Manchester, UK; September–October 2010).
Ward also published a series of essays in PNReview about poets
whose portraits are in the NPG collection. For the last year the
following have been published: “May Swenson,” 189 (September–
October 2009); “Edgar Allan Poe,” 190 (November–December
2009); “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” 191 (January–February
2010); “Elizabeth Bishop,” 192 (March–April 2010); “Carl
Sandburg,” 193 (May–June 2010); “Sylvia Plath,” 194 (July–
August 2010); “Wallace Stevens,” 195 (September–October 2010).
Other Events
In March 2010, NPG hosted a lecture about the legacy of Daniel
Patrick Moynihan. Guest panelists included David Childs,
Ashton Hawkins, Richard Moe, and Robert Peck, and the event
was sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Malkin. Close to two
hundred guests, including members of the Moynihan family,
attended and viewed the opening of the “Glimpse of the Past”
exhibition.
In June 2010, the Embassy of Spain hosted the opening of “In
the Loop: Video Art from the European Union” at the National
Portrait Gallery. Director Martin E. Sullivan introduced the
ambassador of Spain, Jorge Dezcallar, to the evening’s audience
in the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. Deputy Director
and Chief Curator Carolyn K. Carr and Director of Education
Rebecca Kasemeyer served as jurors for this public program,
along with artist Jefferson Pinder and judges from the Phillips
Collection and the American University Museum at the Katzen
Arts Center. This competition, organized by the office of cultural
affairs at the Spanish embassy during Spain’s presidency of the
Council of the European Union, was presented to provide a
parallel with the time-based media in the Outwin Boochever
Portrait Competition.
Media Cover age
Time quote of the day January 8, 2010
“ ‘Everybody needs to have a moment with Elvis.’
—Warren Perry, curator of the Smithsonian’s Elvis
exhibit, on why 75 years after Elvis’s birth people
are still drawn to the King.”
The exhibition “One Life: Echoes of Elvis” reached
blockbuster status among national and international
news outlets, including ABC’s Good Morning
America and Vanity Fair, with 1,500 additional
reports and mentions. Reports covered the
exhibition itself, public programs, and the Edgar
P. Richardson Symposium on Elvis. The coverage
for this exhibition equaled the National Portrait
Gallery’s press coverage for the entire year of 2009.
Warren Perry discusses “One Life: Echoes of Elvis”
The museum’s installation of the portrait of J. D.
Salinger by Robert Vickrey on its In Memoriam wall
was widely reported as well, reaching media outlets
in every state in the nation.
The Portrait Gallery began a local advertising
campaign this year with the tagline “Who Will You
Meet?” Advertisements ran on the first Thursday
of each month in the Washington Post’s free
publication, Express. In April and May 2010, ads
with this tagline appeared on the backs of buses
and promoted the exhibition “Portraiture Now:
Communities” during the month of April. Metro
cars on the red and green lines had “car-cards”
placed near the doors.
In September, the museum launched an e-mail
subscription service. At the writing of this report
about 9,000 subscribers are learning about
exhibitions, programs, and special events; we are
looking to double that number in FY 2011.
Metro “car card” for the “Who Will You Meet?” campaign
Norman Mineta at his portrait presentation
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Donations to the Collection
Department of Painting and Sculpture
John Laurens by Charles Willson Peale, watercolor on ivory, 1780;
acquired through the generosity of an anonymous donor
Alfred Lunt by Claggett Wilson, oil on canvas, c. 1930; gift of an
anonymous donor in memory of Joe Garton, founding director of
Ten Chimneys
Norman Mineta by Everett Raymond Kinstler, oil on canvas,
2009; gift of George and Sakaye Aratani; Hill & Knowlton;
Verizon Communications; AT&T; Freddie Mac; Saturn
Electronics & Engineering/Wally Tsuha; Ms. Irene Hirano and
the Japanese American National Museum; National Japanese
American Memorial Foundation; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; The
Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars;
Asian American Government Executives Network; Asian
Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies; Allen
Okamoto, Chairman of Asian Real Estate Association of America;
Association of Asian/Pacific Community Health Organizations;
Col. S. Phil Ishio (ret.) and Connie Ishio; Japanese American
Citizens League (National); Japanese American Citizens League
(D.C. Chapter); Japanese American Veterans Association; Justice
& Security Strategies, Inc.; Leadership Education for Asian
Pacifics, Inc.; Robert Nakamoto; National Coalition for Asian
Pacific American Community Development; National Association
of Realtors®; National Council of Asian Pacific Americans; OCA;
State Farm®; and other friends of Norman Mineta
Pedro Martinez by Susan Miller-Havens, oil and beeswax on
birch panel, 2000; gift of Gloria Trowbridge Gammons and
Peter Warren Gammons in honor of Pedro Martinez, whose
baseball career has been paralleled by his lifelong work promoting
educational opportunities for less fortunate children in America
and his own Dominican Republic
Martha Clarke by Philip Grausman, pewter, 1979; gift of the artist
Ann Landers by Roger Robles, oil on canvas, 1988; gift of Margo
Howard
Alfred Eisenstaedt by Ella Tulin, bronze, 1989; gift of Ira M. Lowe
Neil Armstrong by Robert McCall, oil on canvas, 2009;
gift of McCall Studios
William Carmichael by an unidentified artist, watercolor on ivory,
c. 1770s; gift of Grace Carmichael Moore and Janet Moore Ewing
Edward Villella by Sacha Newley, oil on linen, 2005; gift of Mr.
and Mrs. Sacha Newley
Marcel Duchamp by Ettore Salvatore, plaster, after 1945;
gift of Pietro S. Nivola
William Ellery Channing by John Cruikshanks King, painted
plaster, 1841; gift of George Rinhart, in memory of Harry K.
Hutchinson, Sr.
Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan by George Schneeman, acrylic and
paper collage on canvas, 1968; gift of Katie Schneeman
Albert Einstein by Emil Seletz, bronze, c. 1950; gift of James Seletz
Will Rogers by Emil Seletz, bronze, c. 1933; gift of James Seletz
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky by Raphael Soyer, oil on
canvas, 1980; gift of Mary Soyer
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Charlie Cowles and Ashton Hawkins at a “Hide/Seek” fundraiser in New York City
Barnard Sachs by Henry Rittenberg, oil on canvas, c. 1936;
gift of the estate of Barnard Sachs Straus
Louis I. Kahn by Alexandra Tyng, oil on canvas, 2009;
gift of the artist
Andrew Young by Rossin, oil on canvas, 2009; gift of Jack Watson
World Trade Center artifact, steel, 2001; transfer from the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey
Department of Photographs
John Ford by Roman Freulich, gelatin silver print, c. 1944;
gift of Norman and Joan Abramson
John Wayne by Roman Freulich, halftone photograph, 1959;
gift of Norman and Joan Abramson
Dorothy Thompson by Emery Revesz-Biro, gelatin silver print,
c. 1940; acquired through the generosity of an anonymous donor
Two daguerreian tokens from the Marcus Root studio, brass and
copper, c. 1850; gift of an anonymous donor
Daniel Payne by Frederick Gutekunst, albumen silver print,
c. 1888; acquired through the generosity of Nik and Melissa
Apostolides
Miles Davis by Tom Palumbo, gelatin silver print, 1955 (printed
2009); gift of Patricia Bosworth
George Bush by Arthur Grace, gelatin silver print, 1987 (printed
2010); gift of Debra Breslow-Grace
Stanley Marcus self-portrait, digital pigment print, 1966 (printed
2008); gift of Cairn Press/Allison V. Smith and Jerrie Marcus
Smith
William Shirer by Emery Revesz-Biro, gelatin silver print, c. 1950;
acquired through the generosity of Carolyn Kinder Carr
Billie Holiday by an unidentified photographer, gelatin silver print,
c. 1955; gift of David Cooper in honor of Carolyn K. Carr
Lady Bird Johnson by Dennis Fagan, digital inkjet print, 1986
(printed 2009); gift of Jean Marie Fagan
Philip Hamburger by Jill Krementz, gelatin silver print, 1997;
gift of Pie Friendly
Donations to the Collection
Tom Hanks by Dan Winters, digital pigment print, 1999 (printed
2010); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
Tony Hillerman by Keith Carter, gelatin silver print, 1989 (printed
2009); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
John Mackey by Dan Winters, digital pigment print, 1991 (printed
2010); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
Joyce Carol Oates by Dan Winters, digital pigment print, 2007
(printed 2010); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
Walker Percy by Keith Carter, gelatin silver print, 1989 (printed
2009); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
George Strait by Michael O’Brien, digital inkjet print, 1991
(printed 2009); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
The daguerrian alcove at the National Portrait Gallery is specifically designed to easily view portraits created in one of the earliest forms of photography.
Curley by Fred Miller, gelatin silver print, 1909; gift of Frank and
Betsy Goodyear, in honor of Frank H. Goodyear III
William Styron by Dmitri Kasterine, gelatin silver print, 1982;
acquired through the generosity of Elizabeth Ann Hylton
Charles Schulz by Yousuf Karsh, chromogenic print, 1986;
gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh
Barbara Kruger by Dmitri Kasterine, gelatin silver print, 1986;
gift of Dmitri Kasterine
Stanley Kubrick by Dmitri Kasterine, gelatin silver print, 1969
(printed 2009); gift of Dmitri Kasterine
Willie Mays by Dan Farrell, gelatin silver print, 1972; gift of
Richard E. Kremer, M.D.
Norman Borlaug by Arthur Rickerby, gelatin silver print, 1970;
acquired through the generosity of Ronald and Judith Phillips,
Jeanie Borlaug Laube, and William Borlaug
Marcel Duchamp by Arnold Rosenberg, gelatin silver print, 1958;
gift of Rochelle and Arnold Rosenberg
Daniel Boorstin by Bern Schwartz, digital pigment print, 1977
(printed 2009); gift of the Bernard L. Schwartz Foundation
Elliott Carter by Bern Schwartz, digital pigment print, 1978
(printed 2009); gift of the Bernard L. Schwartz Foundation
Ralph Ellison by Bern Schwartz, digital pigment print, 1978
(printed 2009); gift of the Bernard L. Schwartz Foundation
Arthur Schlesinger by Bern Schwartz, digital pigment print, 1978
(printed 2009); gift of the Bernard L. Schwartz Foundation
Studs Terkel by Alec Soth, chromogenic print, 2007 (printed
2009); gift of the artist
Christo and Jeanne-Claude by Wolfgang Volz, digital pigment
print, 2005 (printed 2009); gift of the artist
Warren Buffett by Michael O’Brien, digital inkjet print, 1988
(printed 2009); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
Department of Prints and Drawings
Farrah Fawcett by Bruce McBroom, color photolithographic
poster with halftone, 1976; gift of Chisholm Larsson Gallery,
New York
Arlo Guthrie by an unidentified artist, color photolithographic
poster, 1969; gift of Chisholm Larsson Gallery, New York
Ronald Reagan by Personality Posters, Inc., photolithographic
poster, 1967; gift of Margaret C. S. Christman
Pauline Morton Sabin by Samuel J. Woolf, charcoal and gouache,
1932; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
Walter Clark Teagle by Samuel J. Woolf, charcoal and gouache,
1930; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld
George W. Bush by Edward Sorel, watercolor and pencil, c. 2006;
gift of Ben Harris
Henry Martyn Leland by Josef Pierre Nuyttens, etching, c. 1909;
acquired through the generosity of Sid and Barbara Hart in
memory of Edward Howard Hart
Fania Marinoff by Adolfo Best-Maugard, watercolor and pencil,
1925; gift of Margaret and Bruce Kellner
Carl Van Vechten by Don Bachardy, pencil and ink wash, 1964;
gift of Margaret and Bruce Kellner
Tommy Lasorda by Ray Kinstler, watercolor and pencil, 2009;
gift of Everett Raymond Kinstler
Norman Mineta by Ray Kinstler, watercolor and pencil, 2009;
gift of Everett Raymond Kinstler
Robert Rauschenberg, self-portrait, cover of Time, November 29,
1976; gift of Ellen G. Miles
Esquire’s Portrait of the Twenty-First Century by Lincoln Schatz,
generative video and software, 2008; gift of the artist
Samuel Adams by an unidentified artist, engraving, 1780; acquired
through the generosity of David C. Ward
John Burroughs by M. Paul Roche, etching, 1916; acquired
through the generosity of Paul and Christine Wick
Vannevar Bush by Arnold Newman, gelatin silver print, c. 1949;
gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
Marc Jacobs by Elizabeth Peyton, etching on pink silk laminated
paper, 2003; acquired through the generosity of Paul and
Christine Wick
Shawn Carter, or Jay-Z, by Dan Winters, digital pigment print,
2003 (printed 2010); gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff
Richard Artschwager, self-portrait, lithograph, 2009; transfer from
the Archives of American Art
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Donors
The National Portrait Gallery is dependent upon contributions from individuals and organizations. Our many
significant achievements of 2010 would not have been possible without the ongoing and generous contributions
from our donors, whose contributions give critical support for operating costs for nonfederal staff, fund
groundbreaking special exhibitions, provide premier educational programming for children and adults, and
support the preservation and care of our priceless collection. Leadership Gifts of $100,000 and above
Abraham and Virginia Weiss Charitable Trust, Amy and
Marc Meadows
Anonymous
The Calamus Foundation
Donald A. Capoccia and Tommie L. Pegues
The Ceres Trust
Claire Belle Fund
Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
Gifts of $50,000 to $99,999
The Henry Luce Foundation
The Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation
for the Arts, Inc.
The Reed Foundation
Terra Foundation for American Art
Gifts of $25,000 to $49,999
American Pharmacists Association
Edwin C. Anderson, Jr.
Creative Consulting Specialists
Catherine V. Dawson
E*TRADE
First Protocol
Ella Foshay
Hearst Magazines
John Burton Harter Charitable Trust
JP Morgan Chase
Ludwig Family Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin
Merrill Lynch & Company
Vornado/Charles E. Smith LP
Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999
Academy of Osseointegration
Anonymous
Robby Browne and Madison Cumnock
Catapult Technology, Ltd.
Sally and Percy Chubb
David Schwartz Foundation, Inc.
The Durst Organization
Isobel Ellis
Ashton Hawkins and Johnnie Moore
Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
Craig Kruger and Eric Michael
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
V. Thanh Nguyen
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc.
Frank J. Sciame
Jonathan Sheffer and Christopher Barley
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Smithsonian Women’s Committee
Jon Stryker
Toronto Convention & Visitors Association
The Washington Post Company
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wyeth Foundation for American Art
Gifts of $1,000 to $9,999
Alexander and Bonin
Beaty Family Fund of the Community Foundation for the
National Capital Region
Lisa Bodager and Rebecca Linder
Booz Allen Hamilton
Norman Borlaug and Jeanie Borlaug Laube
James Sharp Brodsky and Philip E. McCarthy II
Travis Brown and Teresa Barger
Burnett Family Fund
John and Kathleen Byrnes
Dan Critchett and Greg Slimko
Jane Dana and David Aufhauser
David Bohnett Foundation
Lisa and Porter Dawson
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Doty
Ebersol-Saint James Family Trust
Charles C. Francis
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson Fund, Inc.
Peter and Rhonnda Grant
H. van Ameringen Foundation
Elizabeth Ann Hylton
Benjamin R. Jacobs
Jerome Robbins Foundation
Nathaniel and Georgia Kramer
Sidney Lawrence and Thomas Birch
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
The Lemon Foundation
Mary Martell and Paul Johnson
Joshua Masi
Molly Mahoney Matthews
Weston F. Milliken
Walter and Joan Mondale
Roger and E. J. Mudd
Leo Mullen and Helene Patterson
Nadine Bernard Westcott, Inc.
The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Page
Amy and Gary Perlin
Mr. Edwin L. Phelps
Ronald and Judith L. Phillips
James and Yvonne Reinsch
Sidwell Friends School
Donors
Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP
William Sofield
Ann and Trevor Swett
Peter and Barbara Thompson
Toby D. Lewis Philanthropic Fund
Tonio Burgos & Associates, Inc.
Paul Travis and Mark Fichandler
David von Storch
Nancy Voorhees
Yuqi Wang
Paul Washington and Stan Sagner
Diane Wondisford
Irene and Alan Wurtzel
Mr. Robert Yellowlees
Barbara Zabel and Thomas Couser
Adopt-A-Portrait
New donors:
Kathleen and Kevin Buchi
Bruce and Susan Gibeson
Contributing donors:
Anthony and Gay Barclay
Anthony and Dolores Beilenson
Mary C. Blake
William and Margaret Bond
John and Carol Boochever
Daniel Brewster, Jr.
Kathleen and Kevin Buchi
Sally and Percy Chubb
Pete and Linda Claussen
Esther Coopersmith
Joan and Philip Currie
Karen L. Daigle
Frank Daniels, Jr.
Dorothy del Bueno
Louis and Richard England
Ella Foshay and Michael Rothfeld
Victoria and Buzzy Geduld
Lucy Gettman
Gloria Shaw Hamilton
Christie Harris
William and Alice Konze
Mark Kuller
Jon and Lillian Lovelace
The Honorable and Mrs. Walter F. Mondale
Roger and E. J. Mudd
Dan and Rebecca Okrent
Dr. Betsee Parker
Laura Peebles and Ellen Fingerman
Sandra Sully
Bruce and Stephanie Vinokour
Jack and Beth Watson
John Wilmerding
Betsy Wyeth
PRESIDENTS’ CIRCLE
George Washington Circle ($5,000 and
above)
John and Carol Boochever
Booz Allen Hamilton
Sally and Percy Chubb
Ella Foshay and Michael Rothfeld
James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs
William and Alice Konze
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
Amy and Marc Meadows
V. Thanh Nguyen
James and Yvonne Reinsch
Nancy Voorhees
Yuqi Wang
Jack and Beth Watson
Thomas Jefferson Circle ($2,500 to $4,999)
Jane and Calvin Cafritz
Michael and Marilyn Glosserman
Teresa Heinz
Eugene and Carol Ludwig
Robert and Marion Rosenthal
Abraham Lincoln Circle ($1,500 to $2,499)
Anthony and Dolores Beilenson
Timothy Boggs and James Schwartz
Travis Brown and Teresa Barger
John and Kathleen Byrnes
Sheryll Cashin and Marque Chambliss
Jane Dana and David Aufhauser
Ebersol-Saint James Family Trust
Gloria Shaw Hamilton
The Leon Foundation
Molly Matthews and Lewis Ferguson
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Page
Amy and Gary Perlin
Robert Pettit and Alexandra Wilson
Edwin L. Phelps
John Daniel and Wendy Reaves
Mr. and Mrs. B. Francis Saul
Admiral and Mrs. Tazewell Shepard
Albert and Shirley Small
Ann and Trevor Swett
Irene and Alan Wurtzel
Joint Members
The National Portrait Gallery is indebted to the more than one thousand members who support the Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian
American Art Museum through their generosity of contributions ranging from $50 to $500. In addition, their participation in our monthly
offerings at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture adds immeasurably to the vitality of our programs.
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Financial Summary
National Portrait Gallery
Annual Financial Report by Program
As of September 30, 2010
FY 2009
FY 2010
Increase/Decrease
$ 5,849,806
$ 5,443,432 $ (406,374)
BEGINNING UNEXPENDED FUND BALANCE
SOURCES OF FUNDS
Actual
Actual
Actual
Support:
Federal Allocation
$ 5,854,550
$ 6,183,030
$
328,480
Trust Allocation
$
271,103
$
290,329 $
19,226
Gifts & Non-Government Grants & Contracts
$
381,207 $
109,623 $ (271,584)
Endowment Payout $
141,729 $
148,646 $
6,917
Revenue:
Revenue from Goods Sold
$
52,984 $
76,394 $
23,410
Revenue from Services Provided
$
66,083 $
44,686 $
(21,397)
Contributions
$ 1,183,792 $ 1,944,549 $
760,757
Investment Income
$
69,218 $
28,214 $
(41,004)
Other
$
295 $
–
$
(295)
TOTAL SOURCES
$ 8,020,961 $ 8,825,471 $
804,510
TOTAL FUNDS
$13,870,767 $14,268,903 $
398,136
USES OF FUNDS BY PROGRAM
Business Activity
$
Public Programs
Actual 142,695 Actual
8,537
$ (134,158)
$ 1,673,221 $ 1,135,685 $ (537,536)
Exhibitions
$ 2,744,749 $ 2,238,544 $ (506,205)
Collections Activity
$ 2,450,574 $ 3,025,271 $
574,697
Research
$
493,686 $
778,003
$
284,317
Facilities
$
9,008 $
26,115 $
17,107
Security
$
94 $
68 $
(26)
Information Technology
$
231,043 $
200,794 $
(30,249)
Operations
$ 1,230,747
$ 1,442,208 $
211,461
Development
$
$
$
145,378
398,595 $
Actual
543,973 Other
$(72,959)
$ (63,183)
$
TOTAL USES
$ 9,301,453 $ 9,336,015 $
TOTAL NET TRANSFERS
$
$
$ (299,209)
FUND BALANCE
$ 4,882,464 20
313,150 56,866 $ 4,989,754 $
9,776
34,562
64,365
Financial Summary
National Portrait Gallery
Annual Financial Report by Expense Type
As of September 30, 2010
FY 2009
FY 2010
Increase/Decrease
$ 5,849,806 $ 5,443,432 $ (406,374)
BEGINNING UNEXPENDED FUND BALANCE
SOURCES OF FUNDS
Actual
Actual
Actual
Support:
Federal Allocation
$ 5,854,550 $ 6,183,030 $
328,480
Trust Allocation
$
271,103 $
290,329 $
19,226
Gifts & Non-Government Grants & Contracts
$
381,207 $
109,623 $ (271,584)
Endowment Payout $
141,729 $
148,646 $
6,917
Revenue from Goods Sold
$
52,984 $
76,394 $
23,410
Revenue from Services Provided
$
66,083 $
44,686 $
(21,397)
Contributions
$ 1,183,792 $ 1,944,549 $
760,757
Investment Income
$
69,218 $
28,214 $
(41,004)
Other
$
295 $
–
$
(295)
TOTAL SOURCES
$ 8,020,961 $ 8,825,471 $
804,510
TOTAL FUNDS
$13,870,767 $ 14,268,903 $
398,136
Revenue:
USES OF FUNDS BY EXPENSE TYPE
Actual Actual
Actual
Salaries
$ 5,095,999 $ 5,317,846 $
221,847
Benefits
$ 1,296,849 $ 1,280,479 $
(16,370)
Indirect Costs
$
4,636 $
809 $
(3,827)
Travel
$
67,542 $
72,935 $
5,393
Transportation
$
257,435 $
242,046 $
(15,389)
Rent, Communication, & Utilities
$
21,158 $
28,686 $
7,528
Printing & Reproduction
$
320,146 $
298,940 $
(21,206)
Contractual Services
$ 1,356,507 $ 1,231,291 $ (125,216)
Supplies & Materials
$
177,475 $
140,495 $
(36,980)
Equipment (Incl. Collections Acquisitions)
$
687,305 $
691,987 $
4,682
Land & Structures
$
–
$
–
$
–
Direct Costs
$
(665)
$
3,447 $
4,112
Other
$
17,066 $
27,054 $
9,988
34,562
TOTAL USES
$ 9,301,453 $ 9,336,015 $
TOTAL NET TRANSFERS
$
$
$ (299,209)
FUND BALANCE
$ 4,882,464 313,150 56,866 $ 4,989,754 $
64,365
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Commission, Senior Staff, Curators, and Historians
Commission
Senior Staff
Jack H. Watson, Jr., Chair (beginning December 2010)
Martin E. Sullivan, director
Mallory Walker, Chair (2008–2010)
Carolyn K. Carr, deputy director and chief curator
John Boochever, Vice Chair
Nik Apostolides, associate director for operations
James T. Bartlett
Beverly Cox, director of exhibitions and collections management
Anthony C. Beilenson
Steve di Girolamo, special projects manager
Sheryll D. Cashin
Dru Dowdy, publications officer
Sally G. Chubb
Brandon Fortune, curator of painting and sculpture
H. P. “Pete” Claussen
Sidney Hart, senior historian and editor of the Peale Family Papers
Linda S. Ferber
Rebecca Kasemeyer, director of education
Ella M. Foshay
Andrew Klafter, Internet technology manager
Michael N. Harreld
Cindy Lou Molnar, senior conservator
Steven K. Hamp
Wendy Wick Reaves, curator of prints and drawings
Jill Krementz
Ann Shumard, curator of photographs
Joan A. Mondale
Linda Thrift, CEROS administrator
Roger Mudd
Tibor Waldner, chief of design and production
V. Thanh Nguyen
Sherri Weil, director of development and external affairs
Dan Okrent
Additional Curators and Historians
James Reinsch
W. Dean Smith
William D. Wittliff
Ex Officio Members
James Barber, historian
Margaret Christman, historian*
Anne Goodyear, associate curator of prints and drawings
Frank Goodyear, associate curator of photographs
The Chief Justice of the United States
John G. Roberts, Jr.
Amy Henderson, historian
Director of the National Gallery of Art
Earl A. Powell III
David Ward, historian
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
G. Wayne Clough
Honorary Commissioners
Julie Harris
David Levering Lewis
Bette Bao Lord
Fred W. Smith
Emeritus
Jeannine Smith Clark
Barbara Novak
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Ellen Miles, curator of painting and sculpture emerita
*retired
Contact
Bethany Bentley, public affairs officer (202) 633-8300
Photogr aphy Credits
Cover: Charles Schultz by Yousuf Karsh, chromogenic print, 1986;
gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh ©1986 Estate of
Yousuf Karsh.
Frontispiece: Ninth Street facade of the Donald W. Reynolds Center
for American Art and Portraiture, home of the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum—photograph by Mark
Gulezian.
Page 4: Martin Sullivan—photograph by Mark Gulezian.
Page 5: “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition”—photograph by
Mark Gulezian. “Portraiture Now”—photograph by Daniel Schwartz.
“New Arrivals”—photograph by Mark Gulezian. Curator tour in
“Echoes of Elvis” exhibition—photograph by Nik Apostolides.
Page 6: “From FDR to Obama” and “Glimpse of the Past”—photographs by Mark Gulezian. “Americans Now”—photograph by Ben
Bloom.
Page 7: Three Men at Shoshone Falls by an unidentified photographer,
albumen silver print, 1877. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West. “The Struggle for Justice” and
“Twentieth-Century Americans”—photographs by Mark Gulezian.
Page 9: All images—photographs by Lou Molnar.
Page 12: Portrait Discovery Kit—photograph by Geri Provost Lyons.
Teen Ambassador Justin Chaney—photograph by Ben Bloom. Teen
Ambassador Tiana Long—photograph by Ben Bloom. “Portraiture
Now” Family Day—photograph by Kim Blake.
Page 13: Nationals baseball players—photograph by Kim Blake. Elvis
costume contest—photograph by Nik Apostolides. “Elvis Is in the
Building” art-making activity—photograph by Shirlee Lampkin.
Page 15: Warren Perry discusses “One Life: Echoes of Elvis”—photograph by Ben Bloom. Norman Mineta—photograph by Ricky Leung.
Page 16: Charlie Cowles and Ashton Hawkins—photograph by JLM3Photos, Inc.
Page 17: Daguerrian alcove—photograph by Mark Gulezian.
Page 23: Sitters for “Portrait of Maquoketa”—photograph by Daniel
Schwartz.
Page 24: Elvis Aron Presley by Red Grooms, lithograph, 1987. © 2010
Red Grooms / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Sitters for the portraits featured in “Portrait of Maquoketa” by Rose Frantzen at the opening celebration for “Portraiture Now: Communities”
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