Photojournalist Alfred Wertheimer was hired by RCA Victor in 1956 to shoot promotional images of a recently signed 21-year-old recording artist, Elvis Presley. Wertheimer’s instincts to “tag along” with the artist after the assignment and the resulting images provide us today with a look at Elvis before he exploded onto the scene and became one of the most exciting performers of his time. Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer, a new Smithsonian traveling exhibition, presents 56 of these striking images and will debut at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles January 8, 2010, Elvis’s 75th birthday.
Developed collaboratively by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Govinda Gallery,Elvis at 21 will be on view at The Grammy Museum through March 28, 2010. Following its showing in Los Angeles, the exhibition will travel to museums around the country through 2013. Elvis at 21 is sponsored nationally by The History channel.
| Dates | Host Institution | Status | |
| 1/8/10 | 3/28/10 | The Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, CA | Booked |
| 4/20/10 | 6/20/10 | Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL | Booked |
| 7/10/10 | 10/10/10 | Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA | Booked |
| 10/30/10 | 1/23/11 | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC | Booked |
| 2/19/11 | 5/15/11 | James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA | Reserved |
| 6/4/11 | 8/21/11 | William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, Little Rock, AR | Booked |
| 9/10/11 | 12/4/11 | Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL | Booked |
| 12/24/11 | 3/18/12 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA | Booked |
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