Wendy Wick Reaves

Curator of Prints and Drawings

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

Research Interests

20th century self-portraiture


Current Research Projects

20th century self-portraiture


Current or Projected Exhibits

Modern American Portrait Drawings: a traveling exhibition examining the nature of graphic portraits from the 1880s to the 1980s. Opening in Washington, DC in April 2004.


Recent Publications

-Wendy Wick Reaves et.al., Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings (Washington DC: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution with University of Washington Press, 2002)

-Wendy Wick Reaves,Celebrity Caricature in America (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1998)