Warren Perry, researcher at NPG, discusses a portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David Silvette. David Silvette executed this painting, the only known life-sitting of Fitzgerald, in 1935. Although the writer had commissioned the portrait, he was unable to pay for it and never owned it. You can see this portrait in the "Twentieth-Century Americans" exhibition on the museum's third floor. Recorded at NPG, October, 2008. Image info: F. Scott Fitzgerald / David Silvette, 1935 / Oil on canvas / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution