portrait
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It was also the first color portrait I had ever painted, and it reassured me I had a gift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
But it’s also a savvy, deliberative portrait of leadership in a fractured time, with a unique takeaway: Knowing oneself is as essential to the job as knowing who one’s friends and enemies are.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"The catastrophe occupies almost the entire image and yet somehow appears relegated to the background," the French daily said, adding the photo painted an uncomfortable portrait of a generation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Published during the Depression, when hostility to Wall Street ran high, this rollicking portrait of the former era’s business titans was a hit that popularized the phrase of its title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
She missed being able to see the portrait of Agatha Swanburne that hung on the wall behind Miss Mortimer’s desk.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Online users can log onto the webpage and browse through dozens of family portraits or a few oral interviews on the site, including that of the Gamboa family, which lived in the Bishop neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
However, like many other female artists, she was largely forgotten, as fashions changed and some of her portraits were re-attributed to male artists.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
However, there are still services today that offer “remembrance” or “bereavement” portraits for parents with children who have died.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
Painters also adopted European conventions emphasizing divine rule in imperial portraits, as in a posthumous one of Akbar with a halo and winged cherubs above him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Dramatic black-and-white portraits of Hattie’s mother in various ballet productions line the hallway, along with a procession of Hattie’s school photos.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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