Mid-Atlantic
The American Revolution marked the beginning of an age of democratic revolutions that swept over France and challenged the old order throughout the Atlantic world.
Drawing primarily from the National Portrait Gallery’s vast collection of self-portraits, this exhibition will explore how American artists have chosen to portray themselves since the beginning of
Contemporary artist Betye Saar has shaped the development of assemblage art in the United States, particularly as a device to illuminate social and political concerns.
When the imaginative journeys of contemporary artists incorporate elements from a cartographer’s toolkit, these borrowings can add narrative, semi-narrative or abstract depth to a work of art.
Americans had been playing baseball long before they agreed on the rules or even settled on how to spell it.
Base-Ball (1787)
base-ball (1799)
Base-Ball (1787)
base-ball (1799)
The 2018 installation of the Daguerreian Gallery celebrates the National Portrait Gallery’s golden anniversary by highlighting fifty years of daguerreotype collecting by the museum.
This event showcases product from Book industry. manuscripts, autographs, maps, atlases, and a plethora of other literary ephemera. Fine and decorative prints.
The country's largest regional antiquarian book fair comes to Brooklyn each fall bringing more than 100 top antiquarian book, print, photo, autograph and ephemera dealers from around the globe as w
