BGuthrie Photos: DC -- S. Dillon Ripley Center -- Exhibit: A Brush With History

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Description of Pictures: A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery
November 14, 2003 – February 8, 2004
From the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection, this exhibition consists of 66 paintings of Americans, including works by some of the most important portrait painters the nation has produced. The portraits reflect the range of the gallery's collection, from Joseph Siffred Duplessis' 1785 classic depiction of Benjamin Franklin to Andy Warhol's 1984 pop portrait of singer Michael Jackson.
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14. RIPBRU_031120_077.JPG: Men of Progress Christian Schussele's "Men of Progress" was described in 1862 as a painting of "the most distinguished inventors of this century, whose improvements... have changed the aspect of modern society, and caused the present age to be designated as an age of progress." The nineteen men in the painting were brought together only in the artist's imagination. They are (left to right):
  - William Thomas Green Morton,
  - James Bogardus,
  - Samuel Colt,
  - Cyrus Hall McCormick,
  - Joseph Saxton,
  - Charles Goodyear,
  - Peter Cooper,
  - Jordon Lawrence Mott,
  - Joseph Henry,
  - Eliphalet Nott,
  - John Ericsson,
  - Frederick Sickels,
  - Samuel Finley Breese Morse,
  - Henry Burden,
  - Richard March Hoe,
  - Erastus Bigelow,
  - Isaiah Jennings,
  - Thomas Blanchard, and
  - Elias Howe.
  In the background appears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, the patron saint of American science and invention. Christian Schussele (1824-1879) Oil on canvas, 1862
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