Americans Now July 12, 2007

'Americans Now,' drawn from the Portrait Gallery's permanent collection, features individuals prominent in sports, entertainment and other fields of endeavor during the last 25 years. It also reflects the variety of media the Gallery is now collecting and addresses the museum's newly established policy of accepting living subjects into the collection. Examples include a hand-stenciled quilt by artist Faith Ringgold, a larger-than-life cast-paper portrait of composer Philip Glass by Chuck Close and the newly commissioned portrait of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.