Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian, placed the portraits in the Art Gallery on the second floor of the Smithsonian Building. Also on display in this gallery was the collection of ...

Separate events this weekend allow for exploring Native American culture through art and film. “I’m a Native American artist ...

National Museum of American History Platinum Portrait of American Horse and wife, Sioux Indians, by Gertrude Kasebier National Museum of American History Kills First, Sioux Indian National Museum of ...

29.5 x 24.5 in. (74.9 x 62.2 cm.) Kathryn Woodman Leighton was considered one of the world's most notable painters of ...

Here, Kuali’i is cutting along the sketched the outline of a portrait, though he also cuts ... at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. Lisa M. Austin Ian Kuali'i with ...

He was immediately popular in New York and received many portrait commissions ... but limited depictions of emotion to "rugged and sober" for Native American subjects and "exuberant and pleasing" for ...

Image courtesy of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Zitkala-Ša, which translates in English to “Red Bird,” was also ...