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  Read All About It: Smithsonian American Women Release Day

  October 29, 2019
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  Firooz Zahedi, Ellen DeGeneres, 1997. Gift of Time magazine, National Portrait Gallery (NPG.99.TC23.1) ©Firooz Zahedi

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  LGBTQ Women Who Made History

  June 26, 2019
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  Ruth Asawa internment camp ID, 1943. Gift of the children of Ruth Asawa, National Portrait Gallery (NPG.2016.2).

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  Object of the Month
  Ruth Asawa's Identity Card

  May 21, 2019
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  Katharine Carl, The Empress Dowager, Tze Hsi, of China, Quing dynasty, 1903. Transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Freer|Sackler (S2011.16.1-2a-ap).

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  Object of the Month
  Portrait of an Empress

  April 29, 2019
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  Hope Gangloff, Julie Packard, 2019. Gift of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Board of Trustees, National Portrait Gallery, PHOTO Mark Gulezian. © Hope Gangloff

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  A Pioneer in Conservation

  April 23, 2019
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  Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum

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  Tiffany Chung, Past is Prologue

  April 3, 2019
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  Image Credit: Alma Thomas, “Earth Sermon – Beauty, Love And Peace” (1971), acrylic on canvas,72 x 52 1/8 in. (182.9 x 132.3 cm). Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, 1980.

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  Object of the Month
  Alma Thomas painting

  February 7, 2019
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  Image Credit: Kevin and Valerie Pourier (Oglala Lakota), “Winyan Wánakikśin” (“Women Defenders of Others”) Buffalo Horn Belt, 2018. (NMAI 27/0215)

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  Object of the Month: Buffalo Horn Belt

  December 4, 2018
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  Image Credit: Bruce Guthrie

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  American Art: A Feminist Lens

  October 24, 2018

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