[Julian Onderdonk self-portrait
A double self-portrait of Julian Onderdonk working on a landscape painting in his studio.
Dwight Ripley papers relating to Joan Miró
1 Drawing (Sketch, crayon, watercolor and pen and ink, col., image and text 18 x 27 cm.)
An abstract self-portrait by Miró, drawn in colored chalk on Hotel Gladstone [New York] stationery, with a note to Ripley signed and dated by Miró November 21, 1961. The drawing was framed by Ripley, and on the reverse he enclosed a sonnet (in Catalan), "En regardent 'Le Lever du Soleil' de Joan …
Leo J. Schreiber papers
Biographical data; birth certificate; copyright certificates; professional and personal correspondence, 1923-1984; Federal Art Project file; photographs of Schreiber, friends and work; photo album of work; 2 oil self-portraits; sketches, chiefly of heads, and including anatomical studies; commercial drawings and related printed material; 18 notebooks with sketches and notes, mostly in German, on his …
Production Records
This accession consists of records that document the planning and execution of Living Self-Portraits, a series of interviews with prominent American artists. Marc Pachter, Chief Historian, conducted the interviews at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). The "evenings" were a collaborative effort between the Resident Associates Program, Smithsonian Productions, WETA (Washington …
Rhea Sanders papers
The papers of a painter and curator Rhea Sanders measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1980. Papers consist of a scrapbook documenting an exhibition curated by Sanders with the Organization of Independent Artists entitled Who Am I?: a Self Portrait Show (1980). Included are biographical materials about exhibiting artists, correspondence, photographs of the exhibition's opening, and printed material.
Charles Rivers Photographs
bulk 1929-1930
The collection contains: twenty-nine silver gelatin photoprints mounted on Fome-Core, Masonite, and cardboard, ranging in size from 5-1/2" x 9-1/4" to 10-11/16" x 13-13/16"; three 5" x 7" unmounted silver gelatin photoprints; a scrapbook which originally contained 56 silver gelatin photoprints, ranging in size from 2" x 3" to 7-1/2" x 9-1/2"; and silver gelatin film negatives (presumably acetate) for the …
Program Records
This accession consists of the records of Jewell Robinson, Public Program Coordinator, who was responsible for public programming at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). Documented in this collection is the series entitled Cultures in Motion, which acquainted adult audiences with the NPG collection by bringing its sitters to life through …
Niles Spencer papers
bulk 1900-1961
Sketches and drawings by Spencer, and art work by others; printed material on Spencer; printed material and a few photographs used as source material for paintings; photographs of Spencer's work; personal photographs including one of Spencer; and a few letters.
Still Prints of Asia: Self & Some of Trophies and Ten Indian Men
Two albumen print of Self & Some of Trophies and Ten Indian Men, circa 1860s.
Judith Saul Stix papers relating to Bessie Lowenhaupt
Sound recordings and notes concerning painter Bessie Lowenhaupt. Included are an audio cassette of Lowenhaupt recorded during dinner with the Stix family, December 20, 1961 and notes about the conversation; an audio cassette of a radio interview with Bessie Lowenhaupt conducted by Stix for station KADI, Brookline, Mo., October 29, 1982, (broadcast October 31, 1982); biographical …
