We’re rounding up some of our favorite posts from 2019. And now, the bust of Jeffrey P. Bezos…
“Untitled, Jeffrey P. Bezos” by Robert McCurdy, oil on canvas, 2019. Courtesy National Portrait Gallery
This is not a photograph, this is a painting. Of Jeffrey P. Bezos. The second richest man in the world. A man who has said, “It’s time to go back to the moon, this time to stay.”
Commissioned by Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C. as part of their Portrait of a Nation Prize, Bezos was honored at the gallery’s American Portrait Gala last Sunday alongside Hamilton‘s Lin Manuel Miranda, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, and Earth, Wind & Fire with portraits that will become part of the museum’s permanent collection. It’s enough to make you want to roll your eyes.
