Product Description: This essential volume showcases portraits of prominent Americans who have influenced the nation's history from its earliest days to the present. It features 150 paintings, photographs, drawings, posters, sculptures, screenprints, and digital video stills carefully selected from the National Portrait Gallery of leading politicians, artists, athletes, celebrities, and scholars...read more

Part of the "Character Sketches" series, this title looks at World War I poets. The series features compact guides devoted to literary, artistic and historic personalities, circles and themes. They contain portraits in a variety of media, all selected from the National Portrait Gallery's diverse collection. The illustrations are accompanied by substantial and relevant quotations from the works of the people featured, as well as contemporary descriptions and anecdotes from unpublished as well as published sources. The books should be of interest to general readers and students alike. Alan Judd is the author of "A Breed of Heroes", "The Devil's Own Work", "The Noonday Devil" and "Short of Glory".

Product Description: Celebrate the life of our Queen with these varied depictions on 12 beautiful postcards from every decade of her reign.

Product Description: ARTnews, the oldest art magazine in America and the most widely circulated art magazine in the world, is celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in 2002. This attractive book celebrates and commemorates this milestone event, presenting one hundred of the best photographic portraits commissioned by and reproduced in the magazine since its origin...read more

Collects photographic portraits and brief biographies of some of the most influential women of the twentieth century, such as Helen Keller, Willa Cather, Marian Anderson, and Judy Garland.

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The year 2002 marks the bicentenary of the death of George Romney, one of the key figures in British art in the late 18th century. A chief rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, he was known both as a portraitist and as a draftsman. This book provides an overview of his career.

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Collects 170 of the twentieth-century photographer's portraits of actors, artists, models, royalties, and socialites, in a volume complemented by extensive notes on both the subjects and sittings and a complete chronology.

Presents a visual and literary review of famous Americans (view table of contents)

Includes over 78 examples of portraiture collected from the National Portrait Gallery including Edgar Degas' 'Mary Cassatt,' Thomas Hart Benton's 'Self-Portrait with Rita,' and Henry Inman's 'Sequoyah.' (view table of contents)

A first retrospective on the photographer's nearly fifty-year career is published to accompany a major exhibition and includes fashion shots for Vogue, pictures of noted artists, portraits of the royal family, and photographs of the lonely and disadvantaged.

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Gathers and describes photographs and paintings of the American writer, and uses them to trace his life (view table of contents)

Product Description: During the summer and early fall of 1950, as Jackson Pollock moved about the huge canvases on the floor of his Long Island studio, defining their surfaces with dripped and thrown paint, a young photographer named Hans Namuth documented the artist at work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: RESPONDING TO a near-constant flow of requests, George and Martha Washington sat for about two dozen portraits from 1789 to 1797, collected here in this elegantly illustrated volume. From miniatures executed on ivory for family and friends to a historical portrait that depicts Washington during the Revolution, the...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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