Stephen Brandon

Review of Smithsonian National Portrait ...

I didn't know the American Art Museum shared each ...

I didn't know the American Art Museum shared each floor with the National Portrait Gallery. We went for the stunning architecture of the pavilion, realized the Patent Office Building was where Whitman worked, and spent a stunning two hours wandering the museum seeing in person what I had only enjoyed and seen before in books. You must go if you are any kind of an Americanist.