Carolyn K. Carr

Deputy Director and Chief Curator

National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
MRC 973
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

Email: carrc at si.edu

Research Interests

Late nineteenth and late twentieth century American art and photography.


Current Research Projects

Latin American Portraiture


Recent Publications

Americans: Paintings and Photographs from the Washington National Portrait Gallery (London: National Portrait Gallery, 2002).

A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery (with Ellen Miles) (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 2001).

Hans Namuth Portraits (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999).

"Prejudice and Pride: Preparing and Presenting American Art at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition," in Revisiting the White City (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1993).

Then and Now: American Portraits of the Past Century from the National Portrait Gallery (Washington and Hong Kong: National Portrait Gallery, 1987; second edition in Japanese, Tokyo, 1988).

"Edwin C. Shaw: Collector," in The Collection of Edwin C. Shaw (Akron: Akron Art Museum, 1985).

Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985).

O. Winston Link: Ghost Trains (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 1984).


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