Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery & Museum of American Art

Housed in the same building is the Portrait Gallery and the Museum of American Art. They each get three floors to display phenomenal works of art.  I want to get back to painting. This portrait of Joseph Smith was painted in 1971. I thought it had been painted during his lifetime.

Portrait of Red Cloud.

Bust of Andrew Jackson.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I.

What does it say? (Actual license plates)

Self-portrait by Max Beckman.

Portrait of LL Cool J (on loan from Cool J himself).

Painting by Maynard Dixon.

Love the painting, love the frame.

 

The Death of Cleopatra

 

Sculpture from Puerto Rico that I found intriguing.

 

Painting by Thomas Hart Benton

Terra Cotta sculpture of Gertrude Stein.

 

Painting by Robert Indiana

The United States outlined in neon. The television monitors are broadcasting images that pertain to that state, ie Dorothy "we're not in Kansas anymore, and Utah showing scenes of the desert.

A Debra Butterfield cast bronze and painted "driftwood" horse (with cool couches that you can actually sit on).