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Oprah Winfrey is the latest icon to be honored with a painting in the National Portrait Gallery.
Media personality and former talk show host Oprah Winfrey's portrait was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday, adding her likeness to a collection of American ...
She hosted "The Oprah Winfrey Show” for more than 25 years. “Oprah's Book Club” helped make her recommended titles bestsellers. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.
In 2012, the National Portrait Gallery sponsored a new temporary exhibit, "Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets", which focused on images of great American poets. The NPG collection had grown so large that the exhibit drew its images almost entirely from the museum's own collection. [56]
An oil painting of Oprah Winfrey by Shawn Michael Warren was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 2023. [1] [2] [3]The painting depicts a smiling Winfrey in a voluminous purple taffeta dress by Christian Siriano, its color referring to her first film role in Steven Spielberg's 1985 version of The Color Purple. [1]
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Portraits, Inc., was founded in New York City in 1942 by Lois Shaw, an art and antiques dealer and socialite. The idea began as a partnership between Mrs. Shaw and the USO in the early 1940s. At this time Mrs. Shaw hosted weekly studio parties in her Park Avenue gallery in which she asked guest portrait artist to create drawings from life of ...