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2007-08-07

Media: Picturing Business in America -- Hedcuts in the Wall Street Journal (National Portrait Gallery)

This exhibit, by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, exploring "the development, the technique, and the implications" of "The Wall Street Journal's distinctive portrait heads, known as 'hedcuts' or 'dot-drawings,'"offers examples of hedcuts of business leaders and the context in which the portraits ran, details about the process of creating the hedcut, and a section featuring hedcuts of women (such as Oprah Winfrey and Mary Kay Ash). <http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/journal/>