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Smithsonian curator Marc Pachter long guided Portrait Gallery glory
Marc Pachter an American cultural historian at the Smithsonian who led the National Portrait Gallery from 2000 to 2007 died February 17 in Bangkok at age 80 after a heart attack. He steered a 2001 donor drive to save the Gilbert Stuart Washington portrait, earning praise as a “teller of lives.”
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Marc Pachter
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery
George Washington
Bangkok
Thailand
Adam Pachter
Pachter
Smithsonian
National Museum of American History
Spencer Crew
Lawrence Small
Small
Citibank
Fannie Mae
Stephen Colbert
Portrait Gallery
University of Oxford
The
New York Times
Harry Dalmeny
Gilbert Stuart
Washington
Dalmeny
Washington Post
Lord Dalmeny
Congress
Stuart
Philadelphia
Cicero
the Post
Dolley Madison
Las Vegas
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
Fred Smith
NBC
Smith
Baron Reynolds
Reynolds Foundation
Post
Marc Jay Pachter
Bronx
Los Angeles
University of California At Berkeley
Robert Liberace
Elise Forbes
Gillian Pachter
Clare Boothe Luce
Luce