Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture

The portrait collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce, assembled over a two-hundred-year period, captured with aesthetic and symbolic power the giants of American business became one of the most significant examples of institutional portraiture in the nation's history. Evoking the original majestic setting of the Great Hall of the Chamber’s elaborate Beaux-Arts headquarters, the dense, Salon-style installation offers visitors a rare opportunity to experience fifty of the finest portraits from the Chamber’s collection.

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