Brandon Brame Fortune has worked at the National Portrait Gallery since 1987. Her research encompasses eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American portraiture, as well as portraits by modern and contemporary artists. Fortune's most recent publications include America's Presidents: National Portrait Gallery, Elaine de Kooning: Portraits, and Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction.
Many self-portraits express how an artist wants to be seen and remembered. . . . Even as it looks a century into the past, Eye to I engages with what the self-portrait means today, in all its complications. --Fine Books and Collections