Boasting both historic and artistic import, this remarkably rare period oil painting depicts one of the most recognized and admired figures in American history, created by one of the very few black ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has installed a rare, life-sized portrait of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. According to a release from the National ...

Just after Election Day, the National Portrait Gallery presents an exhibition exploring how Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), one of America’s most revered presidents, crafted his public ...

Lincoln's cracked plate photo went on show at the National Portrait Gallery, February 2018. (WTOP/Kathy Stewart) WASHINGTON — Just in time for Presidents Day, the National Portrait Gallery is throwing ...

A rare life-size portrait of Abraham Lincoln that hung in the Madison borough hall for 80 years is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. A delegation from the ...

Fearful of alienating the Union’s precariously loyal slaveholding states, President Abraham Lincoln had, at the outset of the Civil War, cautiously disavowed any intentions of putting an end to ...

When we consider the conditions under which the art of successful line-engraving is attained, the amount and quality of artistic knowledge implied, the years of patient, unwearied application ...

Created from life in 1865, this nine-foot-tall oil on canvas is one of three known, life-size paintings of the 16th president Gabrielle Obusek The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced ...

Kehinde Wiley's portrait of the president seems incredibly contemporary, but it's also deeply rooted in the past. Kehinde Wiley’s spectacular new portrait of Barack Obama speaks to the resolute ...

Lincoln, plain man of the people / Bell Irvin Wiley -- Lincoln and human rights / Harvey Wish -- Lincoln the emancipator / Kenneth A. Bernard -- Lincoln, the lawyer / William H. Townsend -- / Lincoln ...

A historic painting of President Abraham Lincoln has been installed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in time for the upcoming Presidents’ Day weekend. The nine-foot-tall ...