E. Warren Perry, Jr.

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Warren Perry, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, holds graduate degrees in medieval literature and creative writing from the University of Memphis and in drama from The Catholic University of America. His one-man shows on Walt Whitman and Lyndon B. Johnson have been produced by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Cultures in Motion project (2006, 2007) and he was a writer and researcher for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery from 2001-2014. Warren's one-man play, Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War, was published by the Smithsonian in 2009. He is the editor of Echoes of Elvis: The Cultural Legacy of Elvis Presley (Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2012) and a co-author of Elvis 1956: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer, which received the Foreword Book Reviews Bronze Award for music writing in 2010. 

Links to Video

  • The Battle of Cedar Creek | C-SPAN
  • William Tecumseh Sherman, Portrait in a Minute
  • Elaine de Kooning, Portrait in a Minute
  • Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Portrait in a Minute
  • Interview with Historian Dan Okrent
  • Portrait of John Pelham, Confederate artillery officer
  • Interview with Lincoln Schatz, video artist, discussing The Network
  • Interview with artist Ronald Sherr on his portrait of Colin Powell
  • The Battle of Fredericksburg
  • FDR, Portrait in a Minute
  • Richard Nixon, Portrait in a Minute
  • Lyndon Johnson, Portrait in a Minute
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, Portrait in a Minute
  • Ernest Hemingway, Portrait in a Minute
  • Miguel Covarrubias, Caricature Artist of 1920s America
  • Space Shuttle Discovery arrives at the Smithsonian
  • Walt Whitman and the Patent Office Building, Civil War
  • 1862: The Rise of Ulysses S. Grant
  • Interview with artist Rossin
  • The Art of Motown - Smithsonian Channel
  • Munson's Hill: Battlefield Trickery in the Civil War
  • Interview with NPG Curator Frank Goodyear - Portrait of George Custer
  • Warren Perry introduces author Roger Di Silvestro on C-SPAN Book TV
  • The First Battle of Manassas
  • Interview with James Barber on ‪"The Death of Ellsworth" exhibition, National Portrait Gallery‬‏
  • Interview with NPG historian David C. Ward‬‏ - Lincoln's Beard
  • Interview with NPG Curator Frank Goodyear - Ambrose Burnside, 1861
  • Interview with NPG Historian David Ward - Life Masks of Abraham Lincoln
  • Interviews with Visitors to Hide/Seek Exhibition at NPG
  • Artist interview with photographer Alfred Wertheimer
  • Echoes of Elvis Symposium, National Portrait Gallery
  • Interview with NPG Curator Ellen Miles
  • PBS Newshour - Art Beat: Artists Shake Up Elvis Presley's Image
  • Curator tour of One Life: Echoes of Elvis, at National Portrait Gallery
  • Smithsonian Magazine - Echoes of Elvis
  • Portrait of Walt Whitman, National Portrait Gallery
  • Tommy Lasorda Portrait Dedication Ceremony, National Portrait Gallery

Links to Audio of Gallery Talks and Interviews

  • Gallery Lecture, Red Grooms portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Gallery Lecture, Robert Arneson portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Interview with artist Ralph Cowan on portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Interview with NPG Deputy Director Carolyn Carr on portrait of President Obama
  • Interview with artist Aleksander Titovets and portrait of Laura Bush
  • Gallery Lecture, Andy Warhol Portrait of Michael Jackson
  • Radio interview on Q102 Winchester, VA
  • NPR Interview with Curator Warren Perry on All Things Considered
  • Gallery Lecture, Portrait of Eudora Welty by Mildred Wolfe
  • Gallery Lecture, Robert McCurdy Portrait of Toni Morrison
  • Interview with Saki Yokoyama Tsuiki, Curator of Education at National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
  • Interview: Warren Perry and David Ward - Lincoln Symposium
  • Gallery Lecture, Ralph Cowan portrait of Elvis Presley
  • Warren Perry on Memphis Music, Elvis Presley and Isaac Hayes
  • Gallery Lecture, David Silvette portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Interview: Warren Perry and Curator David Ward - The Mask of Lincoln
  • Interview: Warren Perry and Curator Sid Hart on Herblock Exhibit
  • Gallery Lecture on FDR and the End of Prohibition

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  • Edmund Warren Perry, Jr. Wikipedia page
  • National Portrait Gallery Facebook Page
  • Catalog of American Portraits Facebook Page
  • Echoes of Elvis Exhibition
  • Amazon.com: E. Warren Perry Jr. Author Page
  • Elvis at 21 Traveling Exhibition
  • National Portrait Gallery weblog - Face to Face
  • Doollee - Playwrights Database

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