The Telling Image
January 22-June 6, 1993
Exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Exhibition of portrait photographs from the Archives of American Art at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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John White Alexander, ca. 1901
Creator: Zaida Ben-Yusuf
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Chester Beach, ca. 1908
Creator: Gertrude Käsebier
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Charles Henry Caffin, ca. 1911
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz
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Alexander Calder, ca. 1938
Creator: Herbert Matter
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Rhys Caparn, 1948
Creator: Maya Deren
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Norman Chamberlain, 1938
Creator: George Hurrell
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William Merritt Chase, ca. 1890
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Frederic Edwin Church and Theodore Winthrop, ca. 1860
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Arthur B. Davies, ca. 1908
Creator: Gertrude Käsebier
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Adolf Dehn, ca. 1926
Creator: Andre Kertesz
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Edith Emerson, ca. 1919
Creator: Elizabeth Buehrmann
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Juliana Force, ca. 1931
Creator: Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
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Charles Lang Freer, ca. 1916
Creator: Edward Steichen
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Marsden Hartley, 1927
Creator: Paul Strand
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William Ivins, ca. 1900
Creator: Gertrude Käsebier
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William H. Johnson, ca. 1927
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Frida Kahlo, 1941
Creator: Emmy Lou Packard
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Lee Krasner, 1972
Creator: Irving Penn
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Dorothy Liebes, ca. 1943
Creator: Man Ray
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his daughter, Edith, ca. 1868
Creator: G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander) Healy
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Willard L. Metcalf, ca. 1920
Creator: Nickolas Muray
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Nickolas Muray, ca. 1928
Creator: Edward Steichen
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Eadweard Muybridge self portrait, ca. 1880
Creator: Eadweard James Muybridge
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Louise Nevelson, ca. 1931
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Georgia O'Keeffe, ca. 1920
Creator: Alfred Stieglitz
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Gottardo Piazzoni, ca. 1907
Creator: Arnold Genthe
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Horace Pippin, 1940
Creator: Carl Van Vechten
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Henry Ernest Schnakenberg, 1923
Creator: Paul Outerbridge
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Charles Sheeler, ca. 1923
Creator: Charles Sheeler
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Jessie Wilcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green, ca. 1900
Creator: Clayton Stone Harris
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Russell Smith, 185-?
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Russell Smith, Priscilla Smith, daughter Mary Smith and an unidentified woman., ca. 1860
Creator: Xanthus Smith
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Hedda Sterne and Saul Steinberg, 1944
Creator: George Platt Lynes
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Carl Van Vechten, 1932
Creator: Carl Van Vechten
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Elihu Vedder, ca. 1869
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Abraham Walkowitz, ca. 1911
Creator: Arnold Genthe
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Carl Walters, ca. 1914
Creator: Henrietta Kibbe
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John Quincy Adams Ward in his studio, ca. 1887
Creator: Pach Brothers
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Hugo Weber, 1947
Creator: Harry M. (Harry Morey) Callahan
