Exhibitions

Jay Gould: Mephistopheles of Wall Street

July 21, 1978 – February 4, 1979

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

2nd Floor

See on Map Floor Plan

See cartoon commentaries on the post-Civil War activities of the industrialist alongside a portrait by Eastman Johnson. Objects evoking his lifestyle—furniture from Lyndhurst, his 40-room mansion overlooking the Hudson River,a model of his private railroad car and a watercolor of his yacht—are also on view.