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New Arrivals

March 21, 2008 - January 25, 2009

Museum: Portrait Gallery

Location: 1st Floor, North Side

This rotating exhibition highlights newly acquired objects in the National Portrait Gallery collection. New Arrivals displays paintings, drawings, sculptures, posters, prints, and photographs featuring such subjects as Henry Kirke Brown by Louis Lang, Louis and Annette Kaufman by Lawrence Lebduska, Judy Garland by Andy Warhol, Cunne Shote by James McArdell (copied after Francis Parsons), Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein by Alfred Eisenstaedt, and Carolina Herrera by Robert Mapplethorpe.

New Addition Note: ? Duke Ellington's portrait, a 1993 watercolor painted by Tony Bennett, was unveiled April 29, 2009, and was on view through July 20, 2009.

See "Around the Mall" in the August 2008 Smithsonian magazine: p. 30.