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Every year the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in downtown Washington adds new works to its vast collection. Ann Shumard, senior curator of photographs at the gallery, says this year's selections represent a wide range of fields.

It ranges from paintings to prints, to photographs to sculpture. It's really quite a wonderful panoply of objects.

Among the exhibits portraits, there is astronomer Edwin Hubble. The Hubble Space Telescope was named after him.

He was really the one of the premiere astronomers in the 20th century. And in the image, you see him looking through the eyepiece of a state-of-the-art telescope from 1949.

Then there's the photo of beloved children's book author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak. From an early age, he enjoyed reading and drawing, and that really translated ultimately into a career for him.

The exhibit also features portraits of some of the most prominent African American figures in recent history, such as media executive Oprah Winfrey best known for her hugely successful television program the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Theater director and producer Ellen Stewart who founded an experimental theatre company, and Pulitzer prize-winning composer George Walker,

the first black to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra back when segregation often blocked opportunities for African-Americans. We see two images of him, one framed by his piano in his home,

and the other you see his hands as he is scrawl his Symphony No.5 which will have its world premiere next year. There are also many Latino figures in the exhibit, says Taina Caragol, curator of painting and sculpture and Latino art and history at the gallery.

We have a wonderful colored photograph by Alex Rodriguez Walter and Tico Torres of Salsa queen Celia Cruz. We have two wonderful portraits by Harrigan Black Junior of Rudolph Waconia,