Gallery Tour: America's Presidents

1h40

57 stops

The nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery’s mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it.

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1789-1829: Building the Presidency

01:30 | America's Presidents

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Gallery Tour: America's Presidents

Tracks

1789-1829: Building the Presidency

George Washington 1732–1799 (“Lansdowne” Portrait)

George Washington (The “Athenaeum” Portrait) 1732–1799

Martha Washington (The “Athenaeum” Portrait) 1731–1802

John Adams 1735–1826

George Washington 1732–1799

Thomas Jefferson, 1743–1826

James Madison, 1751–1836

James Monroe 1758–1831

John Quincy Adams, 1767–1848

John Quincy Adams, 1767 - 1848

1829-1861: Democracy and Expansion

Andrew Jackson, 1767–1845

Andrew Jackson, 1767–1845

Martin Van Buren, 1782–1862

William Henry Harrison, 1773 - 1841

John Tyler, 1790–1862

James K. Polk, 1795–1849

Zachary Taylor, 1784–1850

Millard Fillmore, 1800–1874

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Washington to J. Q. Adams

George Washington 1732–1799 (“Lansdowne” Portrait)

George Washington (The “Athenaeum” Portrait) 1732–1799

Martha Washington (The “Athenaeum” Portrait) 1731–1802

John Adams 1735–1826

George Washington 1732–1799

Thomas Jefferson, 1743–1826

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

Jackson to Buchanan

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

James Knox Polk

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore 1800–1874

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan, 1791-1858

Lincoln to McKinley

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822–1893

James Garfield, 1831–1881

Chester A. Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

T. Roosevelt to Hoover

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Warren G. Harding, 1865–1923

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

G. H. W. Bush to Obama

George H. W. Bush, 1924-2018

William J. Clinton, born 1946

George W. Bush, born 1946