Showing posts with label national portrait gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national portrait gallery. Show all posts

2.4.22

Viola, Kitaj, Warhol, Garcia, Rosenquist, Cummings, Biddle portraits...

 ...in National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC... 

Bill Viola by Bill Viola - video still (underwater)


 Raoul Wallenberg by James Rosenquist


Robert Creeley by R.B. Kitaj


Russell Means by Andy Warhol


David Siqueiros by Rupert Garcia


George Santayana by George Biddle



E.E. Cummings by E.E. Cummings










23.3.22

Joseph Cornell and Yayoi Kusama on paper...

...at the National Portrait Gallery Washington DC...

Joseph Cornell


Joseph Cornell



Joseph Cornell



Joseph Cornell



Yayoi Kusama



Yayoi Kusama

19.3.22

...Sioux dog feast, Mandan village, a chief before and after a trip to Washington...

George Catlin's Indian portraits 1830-1836 in National Portrait Gallery. America was indifferent to his 300 plus Indian chief portraits. Catlin spent the 1830's traveling among American tribes painting portraits of the chiefs, encampments, hunts, villages and wigwams. I recommend this extraordinary collection of first American peoples by George Catlin if you are in Washington DC. 



Dog Feast

...detail Dog Feast, an honor for guests.


Mandan Village




A chief goes to Washington…





Snapping Turtle who spoke several Indian dialects, was half Indian, and assistant to Catlin.


I could not photograph this group because the area was closed. 

...Indian chiefs, buffalo chase, Old Bear medicine man, in the early American west...

 ...George Catlin's Indian portraits 1830-1836 in National Portrait Gallery. America was indifferent to his 300 plus Indian chief portraits. He took them to Europe where he exhibited them.  I was really excited to see Catlin's work here, finally. The Portrait gallery has many of his portraits, more than I could photograph because of light glare and a closed off section. ...more tomorrow....



Old Bear







 buffalo chase


detail buffalo chase


George Catlin





detail