Pleasant Living Magazine

Heads and Tales
Through December 30, 2010
This exhibition features material from the vast Virginia Historical Society portrait collection. The paintings presented tell poignant stories about five people—a woman who inspired the English poet Alexander Pope; a royal governor who was murdered by a mob; a Federalist politician struggling against the tide in Jeffersonian Virginia; a patron of the arts who made his fortune as a robber baron in the Gilded Age; and a Virginia suffragette, freethinker, and political radical. Their tales are told by analysis of components of their pictorially complex portraits.

428 North Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia 23220
Tuesday–Saturday 10–5
Sunday 1–5 (galleries/shop only)