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Artist:

Mark Seliger, born 23 May 1959  Search this

Sitter:

Ava Marie DuVernay, born 24 Aug 1972  Search this

Medium:

Inkjet print

Dimensions:

Image: 66.1 × 87.3 cm (26 × 34 3/8")

Sheet: 76.2 × 101.6 cm (30 × 40")

Type:

Photograph

Place:

United States\California\Los Angeles\Los Angeles

Date:

2015 (printed 2021)

Topic:

Costume\Jewelry\Earring  Search this

Interior  Search this

Home Furnishings\Furniture  Search this

Costume\Jewelry\Ring  Search this

Costume\Jewelry\Bracelet  Search this

Architecture\Stairs  Search this

Ava Marie DuVernay: Female  Search this

Ava Marie DuVernay: Performing Arts\Director  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2021.64

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Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Mark Seliger

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4730daca8-6adf-48b5-a75b-7694680bbbd2

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2021.64

Artist:

Ruth Light Braun, 1906 - 2003  Search this

Sitter:

Molly Picon, 28 Feb. 1898 - 5 Apr. 1992  Search this

Medium:

Conte crayon on paper

Dimensions:

Image: 53.3 × 38.7 cm (21 × 15 1/4")

Sheet: 54.6 × 40.6 cm (21 1/2 × 16")

Type:

Drawing

Date:

c. 1929

Topic:

Drawing  Search this

Molly Picon: Female  Search this

Molly Picon: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Molly Picon: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater  Search this

Molly Picon: Performing Arts\Performer\Television personality  Search this

Molly Picon: Journalism and Media\Broadcast journalist\Commentator\Radio  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Catherine and Michael Podell

Object number:

NPG.2022.100

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Estate of Ruth Light Braun

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4770230ff-4594-4179-983b-6b8dc15f1137

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2022.100

Artist:

Ruth Light Braun, 1906 - 2003  Search this

Sitter:

Benjamin Zemach, 1 Feb 1901 - 18 Jun 1997  Search this

Medium:

Conte crayon on paper

Dimensions:

Frame: 75.1 × 73.2 × 2.5 cm (29 9/16 × 28 13/16 × 1")

Image: 54.6 × 52.4 cm (21 1/2 × 20 5/8")

Sheet: 55.9 × 54 cm (22 × 21 1/4")

Type:

Drawing

Date:

c. 1929-30

Topic:

Drawing  Search this

Costume\Outerwear\Coat\Jacket  Search this

Benjamin Zemach: Male  Search this

Benjamin Zemach: Education and Scholarship\Educator  Search this

Benjamin Zemach: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor  Search this

Benjamin Zemach: Performing Arts\Performer\Dancer  Search this

Benjamin Zemach: Performing Arts\Choreographer  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2022.101

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Estate of Ruth Light Braun

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4cc9c3195-c10b-4133-9c54-97d0dea855c2

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2022.101

Artist:

Edward Williams Clay, 19 Apr 1799 - 31 Dec 1857  Search this

Sitter:

Thomas Dartmouth Rice, 20 May 1808 - 19 Sep 1860  Search this

Medium:

Lithograph on paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 34 × 25.7 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/8")

Type:

Print

Date:

c. 1830

Topic:

Costume\Headgear\Hat  Search this

Exterior  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie  Search this

Architecture\Fence  Search this

Sheet music  Search this

Architecture\Building\House\Farmhouse  Search this

Nature & Environment\Plant\Tree\Forest  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Male  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Literature\Writer\Librettist  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Songwriter  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Literature\Writer\Playwright  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Performing Arts\Performer\Entertainer\Minstrel  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2022.102

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm45b022bfa-6d96-408c-8533-7da78f994bb3

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2022.102

Artist:

Nathaniel Currier, 27 Mar 1813 - 20 Nov 1888  Search this

Sitter:

Thomas Dartmouth Rice, 20 May 1808 - 19 Sep 1860  Search this

Medium:

Lithograph on paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 32.1 × 24 cm (12 5/8 × 9 7/16")

Type:

Print

Date:

1837

Topic:

Nature & Environment\Animal  Search this

Costume\Headgear\Hat  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Eyeglasses  Search this

Weapon\Gun\Rifle  Search this

Weapon\Sword  Search this

Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigarette  Search this

Music\Musical instrument\Trumpet  Search this

Vehicle\Boat\Sailboat  Search this

Architecture\Fence  Search this

Music\Musical instrument\Banjo  Search this

Sheet music  Search this

Equipment\Walking stick  Search this

Nature & Environment\Animal\Alligator  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Male  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Literature\Writer\Librettist  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Songwriter  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Literature\Writer\Playwright  Search this

Thomas Dartmouth Rice: Performing Arts\Performer\Entertainer\Minstrel  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2022.126

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm46b560f5e-d8fe-400d-87e4-af39a0637299

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2022.126

Artist:

Unidentified Artist  Search this

Sitter:

Richard Claxton Gregory, 12 Oct 1932 - 19 Aug 2017  Search this

Medium:

Offset lithograph on paper

Dimensions:

Image/Sheet: 57.5 × 45 cm (22 5/8 × 17 11/16")

Type:

Print

Date:

1969

Topic:

Symbols & Motifs\Medal  Search this

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache  Search this

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard  Search this

Poster  Search this

Richard Claxton Gregory: Male  Search this

Richard Claxton Gregory: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist  Search this

Richard Claxton Gregory: Performing Arts\Performer\Comedian  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2022.26

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4b1556524-fdc7-49ac-9f5f-e661fe819b23

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2022.26

Artist:

Manuel Vega, born 1956  Search this

Sitter:

Tito Puente, 20 Apr 1923 - 31 May 2000  Search this

Medium:

Pen and ink on paper

Dimensions:

Image/Sheet: 73 × 97.8 cm (28 3/4 × 38 1/2")

Type:

Drawing

Date:

2017

Topic:

Tito Puente: Male  Search this

Tito Puente: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician  Search this

Tito Puente: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Composer  Search this

Tito Puente: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Bandleader  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2022.6

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Manuel Vega

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm461329dfe-4b8b-468f-aed2-b630416eb334

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2022.6

Artist:

Manuel Vega, born 1956  Search this

Sitter:

Sammy Davis, Jr., 8 Dec 1925 - 16 May 1990  Search this

Medium:

Pen and ink on paper

Dimensions:

Image/Sheet: 70.8 × 100.3 cm (27 7/8 × 39 1/2")

Type:

Drawing

Date:

2018

Topic:

Sammy Davis, Jr.: Male  Search this

Sammy Davis, Jr.: Performing Arts\Performer\Entertainer  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2022.7

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Manuel Vega

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm41d07c24f-35d0-44af-986b-3bcdfc4e2fd1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2022.7

Artist:

Unidentified Artist  Search this

Sitter:

Ramon Novarro, 6 Feb 1899 - 31 Oct 1968  Search this

Medium:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

Image/Sheet: 39.5 × 29.8 cm (15 9/16 × 11 3/4")

Type:

Photograph

Date:

c. 1920-40

Topic:

Costume\Headgear\Hat  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Handkerchief  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Scarf  Search this

Costume\Outerwear\Coat\Jacket  Search this

Ramon Novarro: Male  Search this

Ramon Novarro: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Ramon Novarro: Performing Arts\Performer\Vaudeville  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Robert Hunter, Esq) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014 the Works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C.

Object number:

NPG.2019.62

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm46710fd3b-37f3-4e8a-a73d-a995804586c5

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.2019.62

Artist:

Peter Max, born 1937  Search this

Other attribution:

Richard E. Aaron, born 1949  Search this

Sitter:

Sir Paul McCartney, born 18 Jun 1942  Search this

Medium:

Acrylic and photograph on paper

Dimensions:

20.3cm x 27.9cm (8" x 11"), Accurate

Type:

Painting

Date:

1976

Topic:

Equipment\Sound Devices\Microphone  Search this

Sir Paul McCartney: Male  Search this

Sir Paul McCartney: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Composer  Search this

Sir Paul McCartney: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Songwriter  Search this

Sir Paul McCartney: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this

Sir Paul McCartney: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Pianist  Search this

Sir Paul McCartney: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Guitarist  Search this

Sir Paul McCartney: Oscar  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine; conserved with funds from The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation

Object number:

NPG.78.TC571

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Peter Max

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4d1dbe754-fa9a-4851-a82b-185e42c173f5

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.78.TC571

Artist:

Neil Leifer, born 1942  Search this

Sitter:

Gerry Cooney, born 24 Aug 1956  Search this

Sylvester Stallone, born 1946  Search this

Medium:

Chromogenic print on paper

Dimensions:

Image: 35.5 × 27.9cm (14 × 11")

Type:

Photograph

Date:

1982

Topic:

Equipment\Sports Equipment\Boxing glove  Search this

Interior\Studio\Photography  Search this

Gerry Cooney: Male  Search this

Gerry Cooney: Sports and Recreation\Athlete\Boxer  Search this

Sylvester Stallone: Male  Search this

Sylvester Stallone: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine. Conserved with funds from The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation

Object number:

NPG.84.TC152

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Neil Leifer

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm40ae4a836-ffc7-46ae-aeb1-71f0ed5737bd

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.84.TC152

Artist:

Mick Haggerty, born 1948  Search this

Sitter:

David Bowie, 8 Jan 1947 - 10 Jan 2016  Search this

Medium:

Gouache on paperboard

Dimensions:

44.8cm x 34.5cm (17 5/8" x 13 9/16"), Accurate

Type:

Painting

Date:

1983

Topic:

Equipment\Sound Devices\Microphone  Search this

Human Figures\Crowd  Search this

David Bowie: Male  Search this

David Bowie: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine

Object number:

NPG.86.TC4

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Mick Haggerty

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4635617b4-f37c-477e-9816-14e732532c27

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.86.TC4

Artist:

Jano, 1925? - 1975?  Search this

Sitter:

Errol Flynn, 20 Jun 1909 - 14 Oct 1959  Search this

Viveca Lindfors, 1920 - 26 Oct 1995  Search this

Ann Rutherford, 2 Nov 1917 - 11 Jun 2012  Search this

Medium:

Lithograph on paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 99.9 × 68.5 cm (39 5/16 × 26 15/16")

Type:

Print

Date:

c. 1948

Topic:

Costume\Jewelry\Earring  Search this

Weapon\Sword  Search this

Costume\Jewelry\Medallion  Search this

Weapon\Knife\Dagger  Search this

Poster  Search this

Poster\Movie  Search this

Errol Flynn: Male  Search this

Errol Flynn: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Errol Flynn: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television  Search this

Viveca Lindfors: Female  Search this

Viveca Lindfors: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater  Search this

Viveca Lindfors: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Ann Rutherford: Female  Search this

Ann Rutherford: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater  Search this

Ann Rutherford: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Ann Rutherford: Performing Arts\Performer\Radio performer  Search this

Ann Rutherford: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Television  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.87.40

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4ba92166f-560f-4332-8d58-40b8b67a62f2

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.87.40

Artist:

John Bryson, 1923 - 10 Aug 2005  Search this

Sitter:

Robert Mitchum, 6 Aug 1917 - 1 Jul 1997  Search this

Medium:

Color photograph on paper

Dimensions:

34.2cm x 22.5cm (13 7/16" x 8 7/8"), Image

Type:

Photograph

Date:

1983

Topic:

Costume\Headgear\Military  Search this

Symbols & Motifs\Flag\National\British  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Button\Brass  Search this

Nature & Environment\Fire  Search this

Robert Mitchum: Male  Search this

Robert Mitchum: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine

Object number:

NPG.88.TC142

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© John Bryson

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4a857b21f-c86b-4da6-b44f-d0a9065148e9

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.88.TC142

Artist:

Sven Brasch, 1886 - 1970  Search this

Printer:

Ihrich  Search this

Sitter:

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, 16 Apr 1889 - 25 Dec 1977  Search this

Medium:

Color linocut poster

Dimensions:

Image: 79.3 x 57.6cm (31 1/4 x 22 11/16")

Sheet: 87 x 63.2cm (34 1/4 x 24 7/8")

Mount: 89.7 x 65.6cm (35 5/16 x 25 13/16")

Type:

Print

Date:

1918

Topic:

Costume\Headgear\Hat  Search this

Equipment\Walking stick\Cane  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Neckwear\Tie  Search this

Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache  Search this

Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigarette  Search this

Poster  Search this

Poster\Movie  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin: Male  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin: Performing Arts\Director\Motion pictures  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin: Performing Arts\Performer\Comedian  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin: Performing Arts\Performer\Vaudeville  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin: Literature\Writer\Screenwriter  Search this

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin: Oscar  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.93.119

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm40a33dc60-ef19-4caf-8139-2a38a729ae1a

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.93.119

Artist:

Sven Brasch, 1886 - 1970  Search this

Sitter:

Geraldine Farrar, 28 Feb 1882 - 11 Mar 1967  Search this

Medium:

Color linocut poster

Dimensions:

Image: 83.6 x 61cm (32 15/16 x 24")

Sheet: 86 x 63.5cm (33 7/8 x 25")

Type:

Print

Date:

1919

Topic:

Costume\Jewelry\Earring  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Glove  Search this

Costume\Dress Accessory\Fan  Search this

Poster  Search this

Poster\Movie  Search this

Geraldine Farrar: Female  Search this

Geraldine Farrar: Performing Arts\Performer\Musician\Singer\Opera  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.93.369

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4379671c8-be49-434b-a08e-a4abeaec8923

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.93.369

Artist:

Sven Brasch, 1886 - 1970  Search this

Sitter:

Mary Pickford, 8 Apr 1892 - 29 May 1979  Search this

Medium:

Linocut poster

Dimensions:

Image: 81 x 59.5cm (31 7/8 x 23 7/16")

Sheet: 81 x 61.6cm (31 7/8 x 24 1/4")

Type:

Print

Date:

1921

Topic:

Costume\Headgear\Military  Search this

Weapon\Cannon  Search this

Poster  Search this

Poster\Movie  Search this

Mary Pickford: Female  Search this

Mary Pickford: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Theater  Search this

Mary Pickford: Performing Arts\Producer\Motion pictures  Search this

Mary Pickford: Performing Arts\Performer\Actor\Movie  Search this

Mary Pickford: Oscar  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.93.370

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4bde8465f-4f9b-4a4f-9f42-47b04d60da9b

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.93.370

Artist:

Hans Richter, 1888 - 1 Feb 1976  Search this

Sitter:

Hans Richter, 1888 - 1 Feb 1976  Search this

Medium:

Pencil on paper

Dimensions:

Image: 22.8cm x 14.6cm (9" x 5 3/4")

Sheet: 26.8cm x 21cm (10 9/16" x 8 1/4")

Type:

Drawing

Place:

Schweiz\Zürich\Zurich

Date:

1916

Topic:

Self-portrait  Search this

Hans Richter: Male  Search this

Hans Richter: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter  Search this

Hans Richter: Performing Arts\Director\Motion pictures  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.95.181

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

Copyright:

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm46b9db070-18f7-494e-b0d3-daa8549b218e

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NPG.95.181

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival  Search this

Extent:

1 Cubic foot (approximate)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Business records

Correspondence

Memorandums

Sound recordings

Audiocassettes

Contracts

Negatives

Video recordings

Slides (photographs)

Plans (drawings)

Videotapes

Audiotapes

Digital images

Notes

Photographic prints

Place:

Caribbean Area

Trinidad and Tobago

Puerto Rico

Date:

June 23-July 4, 1988

Summary:

The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Scope and Contents note:

This collection documents the planning, production, and execution of the 1988 Festival of American Folklife. Materials may include photographs, audio recordings, motion picture film and video recordings, notes, production drawings, contracts, memoranda, correspondence, informational materials, publications, and ephemera. Such materials were created during the Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as well as in the featured communities, before or after the Festival itself.

Arrangement note:

Arranged in 6 series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Program Books, Festival Publications, and Ephemera

Series 2: American Folklore Society Centennial

Series 3: Festival Music Stage

Series 4: Ingenuity and Tradition: The Common Wealth of Massachusetts

Series 5: Migration to Metropolitan Washington: Making a New Place Home

Series 6: Music from the Peoples of the Soviet Union

Historical note:

The Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998.

The 1988 Festival of American Folklife was produced by the Smithsonian Office of Folklife Programs and cosponsored by the National Park Service.

For more information, see Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.

Introduction:

The 1988 Festival celebrated the centennial of the American Folklore Society, founded one hundred years earlier because of the need to document and study cultures that were seen as disappearing. Much of the Society's attention today, however, is engaged in the documentation and interpretation of emerging traditions and cultural expressions. Folklorists work in inner cities, conduct research on occupational groups, analyze processes of traditionalization and cooperate with other professionals in devising natural conservation and historical preservation strategies, which also promote cultural continuity, equity and integrity. Visitors to the 1988 Festival could learn about what it is that folklorists do and what impacts they have on the communities with which they work.

The other living exhibitions that made up this year's Festival also provided ample illustrations of this same view of the traditional. The Massachusetts program told a paradigmatic American story. Gay Head Wampanoag, Yankee settlers, Afro American migrants, and immigrants from Italy, Greece, Poland, the Cape Verde Islands, Puerto Rico, and Southeast Asia have not only preserved their traditions; through ingenious acts of individual and community creativity they have adapted them and endowed them with new meanings, as circumstances have changed. The Metropolitan Washington program pointed to the heightened consciousness of cultural issues associated with the migration experience. The program asked how immigrants from El Salvador, Ethiopia, China, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as domestic Anglo and Afro American groups historically migrating from nearby states, discard, reinvent, and reconstitute their traditions as they actively make a new place home. A varied contingent of musicians and performers from several republics of the Soviet Union demonstrated how truly ancient traditions nurtured in various pastoral, tribal, and religious environments have not merely survived but actually flourished in contemporary Soviet life. Also at the Festival were American musicians who, as part of a groundbreaking cultural exchange with the Soviet Union, would later travel to Moscow to participate in the International Folklore Festival in August 1988 and be reunited with the Soviet musicians participating in the Smithsonian's Festival.

The 1988 Festival took place for two five-day weeks (June 23-27 and June 30-July 4) between Madison Drive and Jefferson Drive and between 10th Street and 14th Street, south of the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of Natural History (see site plan).

The 1988 Program Book included schedules and participant lists for each program; the Program Book essays provided a larger context for the Festival presentations, extending beyond the traditions actually presented at the 1988 Festival.

The Festival was co-presented by the Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service and organized by the Office of Folklife Programs.

Office of Folklife Programs

Richard Kurin, Acting Director; Diana Parker, Festival Director; Anthony Seeger, Curator, Folkways Records; Thomas Vennum, Jr., Senior Ethnomusicologist; Peter Seitel, Senior Folklorist; Marjorie Hunt, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Heliana Portes de Roux, Frank Proschan, Nicholas R. Spitzer, Folklorists; Jeffrey Place, Assistant Archivist

National Park Service

William Penn Mott, Jr., Director; Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Capital Region

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The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage acknowledges and respects the right of artists, performers, Folklife Festival participants, community-based scholars, and knowledge-keepers to collaboratively steward representations of themselves and their intangible cultural heritage in media produced, curated, and distributed by the Center. Making this collection accessible to the public is an ongoing process grounded in the Center's commitment to connecting living people and cultures to the materials this collection represents. To view the Center's full shared stewardship policy, which defines our protocols for addressing collections-related inquiries and concerns, please visit https://folklife.si.edu/archives#shared-stewardship.

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Related Archival Materials note:

Within the Rinzler Archives, related materials may be found in various collections such as the Ralph Rinzler papers and recordings, the Lily Spandorf drawings, the Diana Davies photographs, the Robert Yellin photographs, and the Curatorial Research, Programs, and Projects collection. Additional relevant materials may also be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives concerning the Division of Performing Arts (1966-1983), Folklife Program (1977-1980), Office of Folklife Programs (1980-1991), Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies (1991-1999), Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present), and collaborating Smithsonian units, as well as in the administrative papers of key figures such as the Secretary and respective deputies. Users are encouraged to consult relevant finding aids and to contact Archives staff for further information.

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