Face-to-Face: Ernie Pyle portrait

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As part of the National Portrait Gallery's education program "Face-to-Face," NPG historian Jim Barber discusses a sculpture of journalist Ernie Pyle by Jo Davidson. NPG historian Jim Barber discussed this 1944 bronze bust of World War II journalist Ernie Pyle. This sculpture, by Jo Davidson, is on view in the exhibition "20th-Century Americans" on the museum's third floor. Recorded at NPG, September, 2008 (uploaded September 16, 2008). Image info: Ernie Pyle / Jo Davidson, 1944 / National Portrait Gallery,Smithsonian Institution; gift of Dr. Maury Leibovitz. Face-to-Face talk currently located on the National Portrait Gallery's iTunesU page. ["Ernie Pyle" by Jo Davidson. NPG.77.317]

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