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The large retrospective includes some of the modernist painter's best-known works -- portrayals of tenement children and boxers -- but also unexpected surprises, including depictions of World War I atrocities and traditional portraiture. National Gallery of Art Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC | 202-737-4215

This exhibition showcases major cultural and political figures from key 19th-century historical figures to contemporary leaders who struggled to achieve civil rights National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution Eighth and F streets NW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000

"The Catcher in the Rye" author is immortalized in Robert Vickrey's painting National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution Eighth and F streets NW, Washington, DC

Freer Gallery of Art - Smithsonian Institution Jefferson Drive at 12th Street SW, Washington, DC

American Visionary Art Museum 800 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD

Walters Art Museum 600 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD | 410-547-9000

Walters Art Museum 600 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD | 410-547-9000

Along with a handful of jewelry pieces and one robe, the show features beautiful -- and, in this age of Photoshop, surprisingly faithful -- likenesses of members of the Qing dynasty, the royal family of Manchu origin that ruled China from 1644 to 1912. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - Smithsonian Institution 1050 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC | 202-633-1000