Twentieth Century Portrait Photography on the National Arts Club

The National Arts Club (NAC) is thrilled to launch its 2025–26 season with Influence and Identity | Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection. This particular exhibition, on view on the NAC’s landmark constructing on Gramercy Park in New York City, has been loaned by means of the Bank of America Art in Our Communities® program. It consists of 83 pictures by worldwide photographers and grasp portraitists spanning from the Nineteen Twenties to the Nineteen Sixties, a interval usually known as the golden age of images. From Marilyn Monroe to Winston Churchill to Miles Davis, the present options portraits of legendary figures within the arts, politics, and society throughout a vibrant period of historical past.

Notably, Influence and Identity consists of pictures of Salvador Dalí, recipient of the NAC’s 1957 Medal of Honor for Fine Arts; Inge Morath, recipient of the NAC’s 1999 Medal of Honor for Photography; and Alfred Stieglitz, who in 1902, curated a landmark present on the National Arts Club which helped launch the Photo-Secession motion.

The present additionally options works by portraitists reminiscent of Antony Armstrong-Jones, Richard Avedon, Yousuf Karsh, and Gisèle Freund, in addition to famend photographers Berenice Abbott, Imogen Cunningham, and Brassaï. Using a medium born of the trendy age, these artists produced pictures that captured the commanding personalities of their noteworthy topics and have come to outline the period’s photographic portraiture.

Influence and Identity is free and open to the general public Monday by means of Friday, from 9am to 3pm, and Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 4pm.

For a full checklist of occasions and to be taught extra, please go to nacnyc.org.

Founded in 1898, the National Arts Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission to stimulate, foster, and promote public curiosity within the arts and to coach all individuals within the wonderful arts. Annually, the membership gives greater than 150 free applications to the general public, together with exhibitions, theatrical and musical performances, and lectures and readings, attracting an viewers of greater than 25,000 members of most of the people.