Portraiture and art, history, biography, identity

art + history = biography + identity.

This blog focuses on portraiture

How we see ourselves and how we look at others.

“Dear Caroline…where’s my picture?!”

There they sit. Frozen in time by the art of photography; two somberly dressed women buttoned-up to their chins with the barest of white...

Spending time with Emily...

There is a reason I haven’t written a blog post for a while. I’ve been writing a book. It isn’t just any book, it a book about history...

The Portrait of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in the White House

The National Portrait Gallery is sometimes criticized for not having a large painted portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The reason is...

U.S. History on a Jug of Beer.

What weirdness is this?! Wandering around the Philadelphia Museum of Art I came across a pitcher designed by Karl L. H. Müller for the...