Exhibitions

Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection

January 31, 1997 – January 4, 1998

National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor, Galleries 111 & 112

See on Map Floor Plan

On view are 20 portraits from an exhibition, which toured the U.S. from 1944 through 1954, entitled Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin. The exhibition includes portraits of Marian Anderson, Thurgood Marshall, and George Washington Carver.

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