WASHINGTON (AP) — It seemed only fitting that Oprah Winfrey chose to wear a flowing, full-length purple dress for her portrait unveiled Wednesday at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She ...

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WASHINGTON − A hush fell over the room 10 minutes early. Was she in the room with us? Which curtain would she waltz out of? Will she be wearing purple? "As I stand here on the eve of my 70th birthday, ...

Open almost any newspaper this weekend, and you’ll be confronted with color pictures of the stars who dominate 2012’s cultural scene. In the 1930s and ’40s, however, most readers didn’t have the ...

Fresh off Sunday’s nostalgia-heavy Oscars night, Ann Shumard, curator of the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition, “In Vibrant Color: Vintage Celebrity Portraits from the Harry Warnecke Studio,” ...

A vivid display of Yevonde’s idiosyncratic oeuvre argues for her role as a photographic pioneer. A self-portrait of Yevonde with her Vivex One-Shot camera, from 1937.Credit...Yevonde, via National ...