National Portrait Gallery (U.S.). Dept. of Painting and Sculpture.

The National Portrait Gallery formed a Curatorial Department in 1964. In 1979, the unit was divided into three specialized departments: Photographs, Painting and Sculpture, and Prints and Drawings.

The Department of Painting and Sculpture oversees the conservation of art work, the authentication of sitters and artists, and conducts research in American portraiture. Research by staff is incorporated into exhibitions and catalogs or transferred to the research file of the Catalog of American Portraits. Permanent collection records document portraits in the permanent and study collections, artists and their collected works, and associative and decorative objects.

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