Author:

Tinsley, Jeffrey Wayne 1947-2017  Search this

Subject:

Fern, Alan Maxwell 1930-  Search this

National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)  Search this

Physical description:

Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print

Type:

Photographic print

Date:

1988

Category:

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes:

Featured in Torch, April 1988

Summary:

"Alan Fern beneath a caricature painted as an 'inside joke' by his friend Edward Sorel, to celebrate Fern's appointment as director [of NPG]." Fern was appointed director of the National Portrait Gallery in 1982.

Contained within:

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 5

Contact information:

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Topic:

Art museum directors  Search this

Portraits  Search this

Standard number:

88-5734-9

Restrictions & Rights:

No restrictions

Data Source:

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sic_9072