Hopper: A Catalog Raiionne, by Gail Levin; Peter Hassrick's 

 Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raiionne of Paintings, Water- 

 colors, and Drawings; interactive multimedia CD-ROMs A Pas- 

 sion for Art: Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse and Dr. Barnes, and The 

 Civil War: Allen Ginsberg's Holy Soul Jelly Roll: and United 

 States Social Security Death Benefit Records. Received on gift or 

 exchange were more than 550 items from museums both 

 domestic and international. The Library's Gift & Exchange 

 program sent 1000 items to its exchange partners. The publi- 

 cations exchange program remains the most important source 

 of exhibition catalogs for the Library, while at the same time 

 disseminating the work of NPG and NMAA to scholarly in- 

 stitutions, both in this country and abroad. Several items 

 from the Library's collections were shown in "Rebels: Painters 

 and Poets of the 1950s;" and two items were loaned to George 

 Washington University's Dimock Gallery exhibition on the 

 artist Henry Bacon. 



The Peale Family Papers marked the 150th year celebration 

 of the Smithsonian Institution with two major publications, 

 Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, Vol. 4, 

 Charles Willson Peale: His Last Years. 1820-1827 (Yale Univer- 

 sity Press, New Haven, 1996) and The Peale Family: Creation of 

 a Legacy, 1770- l8jo (Abbeville Press, New York, 1996), and a 

 traveling exhibition, "The Peale Family: Creation of a Legacy, 

 1770— 1870," which opened in Philadelphia in November 

 1996, and will travel to San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. 



The National Portrait Gallery launched its own site on the 

 World Wide Web offering previews and information on Gal- 

 lery collections, exhibitions, programs and events, publica- 

 tions, and land services. The site features the Portrait 

 Gallery's exhibition "1846: Portrait of the Nation," and 

 "Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s," as well as a section 

 spotlighting biographies of celebrated Americans with links 

 to related objects and information on other web sites. Visitors 

 to the web may also search the Catalog of American Portraits 

 for information on more than 10,000 objects in the Gallery's 

 collections and more than 60,000 portraits in public and 

 private collections across the country. The Portrait Gallery's 

 web site address is http://www.npg.si.edu or users may access 

 the site through the Smithsonian's home page. 



Exhibitions 



The National Portrait Gallery's celebration of the 150th an- 

 niversary began with the installation of the exhibition "1846: 

 Portrait of the Nation." The premier birthday presentation on 

 campus for the Smithsonian, this exhibition focused on the 

 political, cultural and social character of America in 1846, a 

 year bustling with activity, including battles over slavery in 

 Congress, the beginning of the Mexican-American war, a 

 medical breakthrough in anesthesia, and publication of Her- 

 man Melville's Typee. Included was the final version of the act 

 creating the Smithsonian Institution, signed into law by Presi- 

 dent Polk August 10, 1846. An estimated 200,000 visitors 

 came to the exhibition. 



In addition to this anniversary exhibition, the Portrait Gal- 

 lery offered a diverse array of shows from "Cecilia Beaux and 

 the Art of Portraiture" and "Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 

 1950s" to "Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy" and "Image 

 of the President: Photographs by George Tames, 1944— 1974." 



The traveling exhibition program has continued to expand. 

 "'The Family 1976': Richard Avedon's Portraits for Rolling 



Stone, Art and the Camera, 1900— 1940: Pictonalist 



Photographs from the National Portrair Gallery" and "From 

 Truman to Clinton: Presidents on Time" traveled to such 

 diverse sites as the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas 

 City, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee, Joslyn 

 Art Museum in Omaha, Butler Institute of American Art in 

 Youngstown, Ohio, Harry S. Truman Library in Inde- 

 pendence, Missouri and the Gerald R. Ford Library in Grand 

 Rapids, Michigan. 



The Portrait Gallery joined with the Smithsonian's 150th 

 traveling exhibition by lending 36 objects to the twelve venue 

 tour including Rembrandt Peale's porthole portraits of 

 George and Martha Washington, paintings of Joe Louis, 

 Robert Kennedy and Mary McLeod Bethune, photographs of 

 Frederick Douglass, Albert Einstein, Kamehameha III, and 

 The Homestead Grays and sculptures of Theodore Roosevelt 

 and Booker T Washington. 



The National Portrait Gallery closed the year with final 

 preparations for its second 150th exhibition "Red, Hot & 

 Blue! A Salute to American Musicals," a |oint venture with 

 the National Museum of American History. Sponsored by Dis- 

 cover® Card with additional funding provided by The 

 Shubert Foundation, the Ira and Lenore Gershwin 

 Philanthropic Fund, Hal and Judy Prince and the Smith- 

 sonian Institution Special Exhibition Fund, this exhibition on 

 the history of the American musical and the people who gave 

 it life pays tribute to Broadway and Hollywood. Approximate- 

 ly four hundred photographs, caricatures, set designs, cos- 

 tumes, other memorabilia, and audio and video clips trace the 

 musical from its immigrant roots in nineteenth-century 

 vaudeville, through its glittering rise on Broadway's "Great 

 White Way," and through Hollywood's gleaming 

 soundstages, to its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, ending 

 with the modern musical. 



Publications 



Accompanying the exhibition of the same name, 1846: Portrait 

 of the Satwn by Margaret C.S. Christman (Smithsonian In- 

 stitution Press) was published in April 1996. l846hzs enioyed 

 a wide distribution, having been featured on C-SPAN in an 

 interview with author/curator Christman and selected for dis- 

 semination to the Smithsonian's contributing members. 



Red. Hot & Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the American Musical 

 is a lavishly illustrated publication by Amy Henderson, a cul- 

 tural historian at the National Portrait Gallery, and Dwight 

 Blocker Bowers, a historian at the National Museum of 

 American History. The book spotlights the performers, com- 



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