Thursday, April 2, 6:00 p.m. Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
9th Street NW between F and G Streets, NW, Washington, DC
NPG Researcher Warren Perry will give a gallery lecture on the portrait of African American author Toni Morrison by artist Robert McCurdy. Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, has been recognized for her outstanding novels such as The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988).
For more on Toni Morrison, go to the National Portrait Gallery blog at http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2009/02/toni-morrison-author-among-authors.html.
Image: Installation of Toni Morrison by Robert McCurdy, 2006, Oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; on loan from Ian and Annette Cumming
Each week, a staff member of the National Portrait Gallery or a special guest speaker brings visitors face-to-face with a portrait by offering an insight into one person. Visitors meet the presenter in the F Street lobby and then walk to the appropriate gallery.
