Jazz musician Ted Nash explores this question in his album "Portrait in Seven Shades."

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The new exhibit joins the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

He asked Ted Nash to write the hour-long composition "Portrait in Seven Shades."

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Here,actor James Earl Jones performs in Copland's "Lincoln Portrait."

VOA: special.2009.06.21

"Lincoln Portrait" has been performed many times in America.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

the last part of "Portrait in Seven Shades."

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The result is a powerful portrait of a bearded man in formal Arabic dress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Elvis Presley 75th Anniversary tributes will continue throughout the year, including exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery and Newseum in Washington,D.C., and the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles,California.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07