Tuesday, February 3, 2009

One Life: The Mask of Lincoln & the closing of Ballyhoo!























The exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, "Ballyhoo! Portraits of Portraiture," will close this Sunday. If you haven't seen it yet, hurry up! The exhibit features 60 posters ranging from show posters, to wartime propaganda to famed film posters. Includes: "Folies-Bergère La Loïe Fuller" and "Dylan" by Milton Glaser, 1966 (pictured above)
Click here for the online exhibition.


I saw the Ballyhoo! exhibit in December and also the spectacular:
"One Life: The Mask of Lincoln"
This exhibit will run through July 5th 2009 and commemorates the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth with an extensive collection of Lincoln portraits, "a collection that charts Lincoln's passage from a fresh-faced Illinois congressman to his grizzled isolation as president."
Below: Portrait of Lincoln in 1863 by Thomas Le Mere.



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

thanks for mentioning the Mask of Lincoln. I'm the curator. Glad you liked it.
david c. ward