Portraiture | Washington D.C.

"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are."

-- José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis, 1962

I am a cultural historian interested in art & design, history & biography, signs & semiotics.

The former Director of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, in Washington D.C.,

I am writing a book about Emily Howland whose 19th century photograph album was acquired by the

Library of Congress and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.