The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery installed a portrait of Tommy Lasorda, Hall of Fame manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday, Sept. 22.
Painted by artist Everett Raymond Kinstler, the life-sized portrait measures 60 by 50 inches and was commissioned to commemorate Lasordas legacy as part of the Dodgers organization. Sept. 22 was Lasordas 82nd birthday and the first night of a three-game series between the Dodgers and the Washington Nationals in Washington, D.C.
The portrait is on view in the museums exhibition New Arrivals on the first floor through Nov. 15, 2009.
After a brief Major League career as a left-handed pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Lasorda became one of the most enthusiastic and successful managers in baseball history. In his 20-year career as the Dodgers manager, Lasorda led the team to eight division titles and two World Championships. After his retirement, he became a Dodgers executive, and this year marks his 60th season with the Dodger organization and his fifth year as special advisor to the chairman. Lasorda was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997, and he managed the U.S. team to its first-ever baseball gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Kinstler has painted more than 1,200 portraits of well-known personalities and public figures. The Portrait Gallerys collection includes paintings and sketches of Katharine Hepburn, Tony Bennett, Richard Nixon, Norman Rockwell and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Lasorda sat for the portrait at Kinstlers National Arts Club studio in New York City in June 2009. The portrait is a gift from friends of Lasorda.
For more on Tommy Lasordas portrait, see the National Portrait Gallerys blog at: http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2009/09/tommy-lasorda-joins-the-collection-of-the-national-portrait-gallery-.html
Image info: Thomas Charles Lasorda / Everett Raymond Kinstler / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Anders Leonard Zorn (February 18, 1860 August 22, 1920) was a Swedish painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching.
Zorn was born in Mora, Dalarna. He studied at Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm, Sweden from 1875-1880. He travelled extensively to London, Paris, the Balkans, Spain, Italy and the United States, becoming an international success as one of the most acclaimed portrait painters of his era. His sitters included three American Presidents, one of whom was Grover Cleveland in 1899. Zorn is also famous for his nude paintings and realistic depictions of water.
Some of his most important works can be seen at Nationalmuseum (National Museum of Fine Arts) in Stockholm. Among them is Midsummer Dance (1897), a depiction of dancers in the evening light of a rural Midsummer Eve celebration. Other museums holding works by Zorn include the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Zorn Collections in Mora (Dalarna County, Sweden) is a museum dedicated to the works of Anders Zorn. It was designed by Ragnar Östberg and opened in 1939.
At the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition, he received the French Legion of Honour.
More information and paintings at http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Realism/Anders+Zorn/
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London-based, Jason Atomic sets the unofficial world portrait painting record of 42 full length portraits in one hour at the National Portrait Gallery in London 2008.
This is an unofficial record because Guinness BOR say they can’t define what a portrait is.
Jason’s website. http://jasonatomic.co.uk
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This is a step by step demonstration on the process from start to finish. I also lecture during the way.
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Sunny weather is great, unless you want to take portrait photos. Bright light often means harsh shadows on your subject. In this video digital expert Gavin Hoey http://www.gavtrain.com will look at using on and off camera flash to control the light and get some great results.
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This is a practical introduction to the photo equipment used in my professional photography studio
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Learn how to use a studio flash a the key light for shooting a model with expert photography tips from a professional photographer in this free online photography instructional video clip.
Expert: Rob Mitchell
Bio: Rob Mitchell has been shooting fashion for more than 15 years, having worked with some of the countrys top models and magazines. He has photographed the Rolling Stones, Santana and the Beach Boys.
Filmmaker: Rob Mitchell
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by Philip Scott Johnson
500 Years of Male Self Portraits in Western Art
Artists in order of appearance:
0:08 – Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
0:15 – Francisco Goya 1746-1828
0:22 – Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528
0:29 – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792
0:35 – Rembrandt 1606-1669
0:42 – Andy Warhol 1928-1987
0:48 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905
0:55 – Henri Matisse 1869-1954
1:02 – Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863
1:09 – Jean-François Millet 1814-1875
1:15 – Jan van Eyck 1395-1441
1:22 – Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640
1:28 – James McNeill Whistler 1834-1903
1:35 – John Singer Sargent 1856-1925
1:42 – Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935
1:49 – Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665
1:55 – Paul Cézanne 1839-1906
2:02 – Paul Gauguin 1848-1903
2:08 – Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
2:15 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882
2:22 – Diego Velázquez 1599-1660
2:28 – Nicholas Hilliard 1547-1619
2:35 – Anthony van Dyck 1599-1641
2:41 – Titian 1485-1576
2:48 – Paolo Veronese 1528-1588
2:55 – Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472-1553
3:01 – Édouard Manet 1832-1883
3:08 – Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
Music: Bach’s Bouree 1 and 2 from Suite for Solo Cello No. 3, BWV 1009 performed by Antonio Meneses.
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Hello, I am hoping someone out there can answer this:
In the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. there is a portrait of Leonard Bernstein. It is a painting of him when he was younger, and he is smoking a cigarette and possibly sitting at a piano. Has anyone seen the portrait I am talking about? I want to know who painted it. I saw it a year ago, and wrote down the artist’s name, but I have since lost it. Also, if you are familiar with the portrait, would you happen to know where I can purchase a print of it?
Here is the link to one of the Gallery portraits:
http://npgportraits.si.edu/code/emuseum.asp?style=single¤trecord=3&page=search&profile=people&searchdesc=bernstein&term=bernstein&ft_type=1&newvalues=1&newprofile=cap&newstyle=text&rawsearch=constituentid/,/is/,/61484/,/false&newaction=searchrequest&newsearchdesc=Related%20to%20Leonard%20Bernstein&row=&newcurrentrecord=1
It is by Rene Robert Bouche. You can probably contact the gallery about a reproduction or, maybe, a postcard.