Artist Hale Aspacio Woodruff was commissioned to paint the Amistad Murals in 1938. Most Americans know little about the painter Hale Woodruff, but he had a profound influence on 20th century American art. Like many black artists in the 1920s, Woodruff left the country for Paris. He later studied in Mexico with Diego Rivera. Today ...
To see the National Portrait Gallery's Out of Many, One in its entirety, visitors must take to the air above the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Tami Heilemann/Department of the Interior Last month on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., trucks pulled up bearing thousands of tons of dark topsoil and sand. Volunteers arrived with shovels and ...