portrait
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The portrait was unsettling, a little too familiar.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
In “A Moment in the Sun,” Shane White has created a remarkable portrait of black life in Manhattan that reveals the possibilities and limits of freedom during the 50 years preceding the Civil War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Followers trust her to steward beloved images, and when I got up the courage to submit a picture, I sent a black-and-white studio portrait of my green-eyed grandmother Esperanza, a Mexican immigrant from Guadalajara, Jalisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The paintings retrieved include "Madame Pichon" and "Coco lisant", a portrait of Renoir's young son Claude reading.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Coding, portrait drawing, and creative writing for teens.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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He tells me he is now spurred by the desire to assemble an archive specifically dedicated to the people — portraits of family and friends — who feel like home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The two brothers' coffins, draped in the Iran-backed group's yellow flag, portraits of them in camouflage fatigues fixed to the front, led the procession through the village battered by repeated conflict over nearly three years.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
One restaurant’s facade was covered in 7-foot portraits of the U.A.E.’s rulers and dozens of Emirati flags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
On his walls, portraits of Kuwait's emir and crown prince hang alongside a plaque reading: "There is no place like the homeland, and no homeland like Kuwait."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
His guest slumped in one of the armchairs that faced the row of ancestral portraits in Lord Fredrick’s study.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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