National Portrait Gallery Books

Featuring nearly three hundred color and black-and-white photographs, a survey of the Hollywood and Broadway musical from vaudeville to today's major revivals, published to coincide with a 1996 Smithsonian exhibit, spotlights the personalities behind the art form.'

Selected from a record-breaking 2,748 entries by artists from 92 countries around the world, the BP Portrait Award 2015 represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. From parents to poseurs, figurative nudes to famous faces and expressive sketches to piercing photo-realism.