Geffrye Museum will present 'Cycle of Life - Hackney Elders in their Gardens', an exhibition of portraits by Sophie Verhagen, running from 16 October 2007 to 4 February 2008.
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National Gallery of Ireland presents an exhibition, Catching a Likeness, featuring over 50 portraits on paper from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. It will show how portraits have varied in accordance with prevailing artistic fashions, favoured styles, techniques and media.
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The portraits of the Levy-Franks family, attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck and dating from the 1720s to 1735, are the most extensive surviving group of Colonial American portraiture. The Jewish Museum will be exhibiting six of them consecutively in pairs from April 2007 through June 2009.
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International Center Of Photography presents Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits on view through September 9, 2007.
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Oudry´s Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe showcases a set of eleven magnificent, life-sized animal portraits, along with a painting of the son of the series´ former owner, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston.
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For the first time ever, a major exhibition will trace the development of Dutch portrait painting in the 17th century. It will be on view from 27 June to 16 September 2007 at National Gallery, London.
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The portraits of the Levy-Franks family, attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck and dating from the 1720s to 1735, are the most extensive surviving group of Colonial American portraiture. The Jewish Museum will be exhibiting six of them consecutively in through June 2009.
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"Portraits of Sandra Day O'Connor"Â opens Friday, March 30 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery and will run through Oct. 8. The exhibition examines how a group of artists, The Painting Group, interprets the same subject-Justice Sandra Day O'Connor-at the same time. The 25 portraits of O'Connor included in the exhibition illustrate that there is no one way to depict or view an individual.
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Woman Made Gallery is pleased to present the works of Joyce Owens from March 2nd until the 29th. In a provocative series of portraits, Joyce Owens recalls history and confronts stereotypes of African Americans. Inspired by past oversights, Owens demonstrates an acute sensitivity in rendering the human condition. At once proud and introspective, her portraits depict African Americans in period clothing that emphasizes the regality of her subjects.
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Faith and Church celebrates the rich spiritual diversity of contemporary England. In ten newly commissioned portraits profiling the leaders and representatives of the main faiths in this country, the sitters were invited to pose in environments that reflect their spiritual life.
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Born as a small clothes shop on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco in 1969, 'the Gap' expanded to become the number one retail shop in America with over three thousand outlets worldwide. In 1988, the company launched the latest of its advertising campaigns - 'Individuals of Style' - bold black and white photographs of famous faces wearing Gap items, combined with their own clothes to create a portrait of each individual's personal style.
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Journeys: Mapping the Earth and Mind in Chinese Art: February 10-August 26, 2007
This installation, featuring 70 works dating from the 11th to the 21st century, explores the theme of journeys both real and imagined. Depictions of real journeys range from intimate scenes of individual departures and returns to grand imperially commissioned panoramas of royal inspection tours and extravagantly detailed maps of the Yangzi River and Grand Canal.
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