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One Life: Frederick Douglass


  • National Portrait Gallery 8th and F Streets NW Washington, DC 20001 (map)

Frederick Douglass by an unidentified artist. Oil on canvas, 1845. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Exhibit: June 16, 2023 - April 21, 2024

Gallery Hours: 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM daily. Closed December 25

“One Life: Frederick Douglass” illuminates the legacy of one of the 19th century’s most influential writers, speakers, and intellectuals through prints, photographs, and ephemera.

“One Life: Frederick Douglass” is guest curated by John Stauffer, the Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.