Thank you for the link to the National Portrait Gallery, it was of
particular interest to me
considering my father is the artist who painted the Neil Armstrong cover. I
was aware
of the Time Covers web-site where he has over 27 covers posted, but the NPG
site is new to me
and my father.
Marybeth Bortzfield
zbort@comcast.net
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> Subject: Cover Art: The Time Collection at the National Portrait Gallery
> From: Judy Decker <judy.decker@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:43 -0500
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> Dear Art Educators,
>
> The following online exhibit was listed in the Scout Report. I thought
> you would enjoy seeing it. Many different media used for portraits for
> Time Magazine. I liked the paper mache Nixon - thought that might
> inspire a lesson.
>
> 8. Cover Art: The Time Collection at the National Portrait Gallery
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> http://www.npg.si.edu/time/ >
> The US National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution holds an
> impressive collection of portraits from the covers of Time magazine.
> In 1978, the magazine donated about 800 portraits to the Gallery, and the
> collection has since grown to over 2,000. The web version of the
> collection
> features a selection of portraits, accompanied by biographical sketches
> and
> audio where appropriate - for example, listen to a clip of Martin Luther
> King's "I have a dream speech" while viewing his February 18, 1957 cover.
> A
> few broad categories have been created for browsing, such as Sports, Civil
> Rights, and Technology & Invention. Richard M. Nixon turns out to be the
> most featured person on Time covers, with 57 appearances. The
> Resources section provides the link to search Time Magazine's
> comprehensive
> archive of covers http://www.time.com/time/coversearch. [DS]
>
> Copyright Scout Report 2005 - shared here with permission.
>
> Regards,
>
> Judy Decker
> Incredible Art Department
> http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/ > Incredible Art Resources
> http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/ >
