Visitors of the Obama Presidential Center will be able to see the painting, which will be hung in the museum's Hope and Change lobby.

“James Baldwin” by Beauford Delaney, pastel on paper, 1963. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright Estate of Beauford Delaney by permission ...

WASHINGTON - The walls of the hearing rooms and offices of the U.S. House of Representatives are filled with historic portraits of former House Speakers and committee chairs, including ex-House ...

People used to carry the image of their loved ones in their pockets so they could see them anytime. These days, people store ...

Perhaps I should have heeded the warning of John Singer Sargent. He was the greatest portrait painter of the late 1800s Gilded Age, and one of the most revered of all times, but Sargent was only in ...

Oprah Winfrey's portrait now hangs in the halls of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The painting, by artist Shawn Michael Warren, was unveiled in a ceremony this week. As she removed the ...

The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.

It was a piece of art meant to be fit for a palace, only for the Queen who commissioned it more than 250 years ago to reject it for being “too crowded”.

The first official portrait of the Obamas together by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, is on view at the Barack Obama Presidential ...