This Learning Lab collection complements the National Portrait Gallery student program, America's Presidents.

The America’s Presidents student program focuses on the idea of what we can learn about presidents and their legacies from how they are portrayed in their portraits, on what it means to look “presidential” in a portrait, and on how the portrayal of presidents has changed over time.

After completing the program, students will be better able to:

● Identify key components of a portrait and analyze how these components fit into the way the sitter is defined/remembered.
● Compare and contrast what different portraits reflect about how each president is portrayed and remembered.
● Identify American presidents and analyze their contributions to U.S. History.