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 | ouve probably seen them. Maybe youve wondered about them.First invented in 1979, The Wall Street Journals distinctive portrait heads, known as hedcuts or dot-drawingshave attained the status of an American icon, readily identifiable with one of the countrys best-known business publications. In the spring of 2002, The Wall Street Journal donated a group of hedcuts,representing some of the United Statess foremost business leaders of recent years,to the National Portrait Gallery. These portrait drawings, based on photographs,attest to The Journals interest in the primacy of the individual in both political and social systems.Dedicated to preserving American history by collecting portraits of women and men who have significantlyinfluenced our culture, the National Portrait Gallery welcomes this gift, which helps to chronicle the history of business in our nation.This exhibition explores the development, the technique, and the implications of these illustrations. It also explores the biographies of a number of individuals whose unique contributions to American businessand culture theJournal has reported during the past quarter-century.
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Getting Inside Their Heds
| The Wall Street Journals resistance to photographs is legendary. Ive always thought that one word was worth a thousand pictures, retired executive editor Fred Taylor told a reporter on the occasion ofThe Journalsone-hundredth anniversary.
But in 1979 artist Kevin Sprouls devised a technique for illustrating...
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| | Picturing Women in Business
|  In the past decade the face of business has been changing,perhaps nowhere more evident than in the increasing number of successful female business leaders. But picturing women has sometimes been a challenge for artists at theWall Street Journal.[MORE...]
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Business Leaders Change Their Images
 A hedcut is only as good as it is accurate. As business leaders transform their public personas, artists at The Wall Street Journalmust adjust, updating their portraits.
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| | | | | | | | | | Legends in Their Own Lifetimes
 In the final quarter of the twentieth century, a handful of individuals transformed the way we do business...
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Hedcuts generally picture a single individual and occupy only a half-column of space on a page ofThe Wall Street Journal. [MORE...] | | | | |
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