An early portrait by Jamie Wyeth of Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig will finally go on public display later this year. The portrait was commissioned in 1963 by colleagues of the former chief of the children's cardiology clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. An article in Sunday's New York Times discussed why the portrait was disliked by many of Dr. Taussig's colleagues and how the perceptions of female physicians at the time -- and now -- influence how the picture is viewed. Dr. Taussig died in 1986.
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