The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” opening May 11, as the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles in ...

How a curator unlocked the secrets in an arsenic-laced portrait album Carly Pippin, Getty But the camera has yet to be invented, so no photographer documents your first kiss, and no photo booth ...

Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, ...

Before photography, artists were responsible for making drawings and portraits of people for friends and families. Unless the family was fairly wealthy, a likeness was not made. As early as 1790 in ...

Silhouettes by Chris is coming to the Northland as he cuts portraits of people and pets within minutes. The silhouettes take 30 seconds to three minutes, depending on how much hair there is. Chris ...

Silhouettes of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant of Weybridge, Vermont, (c. 1805-1815) is possibly the first depiction of a same sex couple. Collection of Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History Among ...

A silhouette is a shadow portrait. Cut-paper silhouettes were popular in the 18th century. They were not as expensive or time-consuming as an oil portrait, so they were favored as a quick record of ...

Art has enveloped Chloe Sawyer since the very beginning. Surrounded by creativity from birth, she grew up watching her ...

Some artists capture their subjects in pen and ink, in pastels or in clay. Instead, silhouette artist Cindi Hargood Rose uses thin, black archival paper. Surgical scissors in hand, she deftly snips ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” opening May 11, as the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles in ...