BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2009)

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions (2009):

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Description of Pictures: New Arrivals
January 30, 2009 – November 14, 2010
The recently acquired works displayed in this installation span more than two centuries of American history and culture. The breadth of works includes paintings of 19th-century statesman Daniel Webster by George Linen; a self-portrait by William Beckman; sketched drawings of astronauts Bob Crippen, John Young and John Glenn by Henry Casselli Jr.; and photographs of singers Enrico Caruso and Lena Horne and sportscaster Red Auerbach with Bob Cousy.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGRE_091121_002.JPG: LL Cool J , born 1968 Rap star and actor James Todd Smith changed his name to LL Cool J (short for "Ladies Love Cool James") at sixteen, when he released his first single, "I Need a Beat." In the late 1980s, the success of his recordings helped make Def Jam a major label: his broad popular appeal and nine consecutive multi-platinum albums were significant in transforming rap from an underground genre to a mainstream cultural force. Beginning in 1993, he included gangsta rap in his repertoire. He had also crossed over to acting, both in films ("Toys", "Halloween H20", "Rollerball"), and television ("In the House", "30 Rock", "House"); currently, he is a regular in the series "NCIS: Los Angeles." Kehinde Wiley was commissioned to paint LL Cool J for the VH1 Hip Hop Honors program in September 2005. Inspired by Ron Chernow's biography of John D. Rockefeller, LL Cool J wanted his portrait to have a pose similar to John Singer Sargent's painting of the philanthropist. Kehinde Wiley Oil on canvas, 2005
2. SIPGRE_091121_031.JPG: The Shackle Broken by the Genius of Freedom A distinguished African American congressman from South Carolina, Robert Brown Elliott (1842-1884) fought fervently to protect recently freed slaves. This lithograph celebrates Elliott's stirring defense of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 in the face of opposition from Alexander Stephens, the former vice president of the Confederacy. Although many of the bill's most important provisions, including the integration of public schools, were stripped from it by the time President Grant signed it into law on March 1, 1875, its symbolic significance was enormous. Encapsulating the measure's historical background, the print links images of the Civil War with the likeness of Charles Sumner, who drafted the legislation, and that of President Lincoln, who flourishes the Emancipation Proclamation. Elliott's persuasive words run throughout the print. Although the bill was deemed unconstitutional in 1883, its proponents would ultimately be vindicated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Edward Sachse & Co. Hand-colored lithograph, 1874
3. SIPGRE_091121_040.JPG: George Linen, 1802-1888 George Linen studied painting at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and worked as a portrait painter in England for about ten years before immigrating to the United States in 1834. He opened a studio in New York City and became a successful painter of small-format portraits. He exhibited regularly between 1837 and 1843 at the Apollo Association and the National Academy of Design. Nine of his portraits were praised in the New-York Spectator on May 18, 1837, as "exceedingly well colored and carefully finished; and if Mr. Linen is young in the profession, as we suppose he is, they give promise of very high rank for him hereafter." Two years later, he received a silver medal from the National Academy of Design for his portrait of Henry Clay. Although he is known primarily as a portrait painter, Linen also painted landscapes after retiring to a farm in New Jersey in 1868. Self-portrait Oil on millboard, c. 1840
4. SIPGRE_091121_048.JPG: John C. Pemberton, 1814-1881 Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885 During the Civil War, illustrated newspapers delivered "on the spot" pictorial reportage from the front to the American public for the first time. Sketch artist Frederick B. Schell from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, along with his colleagues, covered the long siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, sending home images of soldiers, trenches, and rifle pits. "Oh! could I but portray the heat!" one artist lamented, "the pencil cannot." When the ordeal was finally over, Schell was on hand to sketch Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863. Avoiding dramatic heroics, Schell depicted Grant smoking a cigar with his hands stuffed casually in his pockets. Scrawled in Schell's handwriting is the motto "si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you wish peace, prepare for war). The wood engraving of the sketch was published on August 8, 1863. Frederick B. Schell Graphite on paper, 1863
5. SIPGRE_091121_057.JPG: Daniel Webster, 1782-1852 As a lawyer, Daniel Webster argued some of the most important Supreme Court cases of the early republican period. As senator from Massachusetts, Webster was for many years a major force in national politics. His portrait by George Linen was praised in a notice in the New-York Spectator in December of 1839: An artist has at length been found who has succeeded in painting DANIEL WEBSTER. Every effort for that object has heretofore been a failure, but that of George Linen, the Scotch artist, who succeeded so admirably in catching the glowing intellectual expression of Mr. [Henry] Clay last year. This picture of Mr. Webster is also of the cabinet size, and it is truly admirable-entirely different from the dark, heavy, gloomy pictures of other artists-giving the fine intellectual developement [sic] of Mr. Webster's head, glowing with life and light, and masculine beauty. George Linen Oil on wood panel, c. 1839
6. SIPGRE_091121_067.JPG: Margery Williams, 1881-1944 "When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real," the Skin Horse told the Rabbit. So wrote Margery Williams in her children's classic, The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Became Real, which was first published in 1922. Williams, the author of many children's books, resided from the age of nine to nineteen in the United States and attended the Convent School in Sharon Hills, Pennsylvania. After her marriage to the Italian bookseller Francisco Bianco, she lived in France, England, and Italy before settling permanently in New York City in 1921. This portrait was painted by the Biancos' close friend James Bolivar Manson, a member of the Camden Town Group, which was composed of sixteen English artists who aspired to emulate European modernism. James Bolivar Manson Oil on canvas, 1911
7. SIPGRE_091121_079.JPG: Robert Crippen, born 1937 This portrait of astronaut Robert Crippen by Henry Casselli captures the drama and occasional frustrations associated with space flight. "First attempt at launch-just after discovering that Crip's helmet had a pressure leak and a back up was brought in-he was not pleased," runs Casselli's commentary on the portrait. Casselli's watercolor and graphite study of the astronaut documents preparations for the first launch of the space shuttle. The first reusable spaceship, its deployment marked a new moment in space history. Crippen was already an experienced astronaut, having served on the crew of Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. He has since served as the director of the space shuttle program and of the John F. Kennedy Space Center. Among his numerous awards is the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, the nation's highest spaceflight award. Henry C.Casselli Jr. Graphite on paper with watercolor, 1981
8. SIPGRE_091121_089.JPG: John Young, born 1930 The only astronaut to have piloted four types of spacecraft -- the Gemini, the Apollo Command Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the space shuttle -- John Young enjoyed a long and productive career with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In addition to walking on the moon as commander of Apollo 16, Young helped inaugurate the nation's space shuttle program, which featured a reusable spacecraft, and served as commander of the shuttle Columbia in April 1981. This life study of Young by portraitist Henry Casselli, a participant in NASA's art program, features the astronaut in his "snoopy cap," just prior to donning his helmet for the shuttle's maiden voyage. Shortly after the flight, Young was recognized for his service with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, the nation's highest spaceflight award. Henry C. Casselli, Jr. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 1981
9. SIPGRE_091121_103.JPG: John Glenn, born 1921 A military pilot who distinguished himself in World War II and the Korean War, John Glenn first came to public attention as one of the Mercury Seven, the first group of astronauts chosen to participate in the American effort to explore outer space. In 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. Retiring from the space program two years later, he participated in a number of successful business ventures and in 1970 was elected as a senator from his native Ohio. Over the next several decades, he became one of the Senate's most respected and influential members. In 1998, at the age of seventy-seven, Glenn became both the oldest astronaut and the first senator to fly in space. This watercolor sketch, made from life by Henry Casselli, captures the astronaut in a moment of reflection just before launch. Henry C. Casselli, Jr. Watercolor on paper, 1998
10. SIPGRE_091121_110.JPG: Yo-Yo Ma, born 1955 A remarkably versatile and exuberant performer, Yo-Yo Ma is the preeminent cellist of our time. Born in Paris to Chinese parents, he was a prodigy, and at age eight, he appeared on American television in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. He studied music at Julliard and has a liberal arts degree from Harvard. Besides having played with most of the world's major orchestras, Ma also plays with chamber groups and has done considerable crossover work, including soundtracks for such films as Seven Years in Tibet and Memoirs of a Geisha. He currently plays with his own Silk Road Ensemble, which brings together musicians from diverse countries historically linked by the Silk Road. This casual and engaging portrait was created when he was honored by the Lotos Club in New York City, which featured the image on the evening's menu. Everett Raymond Kinstler Oil on canvas, 2007
11. SIPGRE_091121_126.JPG: William Beckman, born 1942 Art critic Donald Kuspit has described William Beckman's self-portraits as the core of the artist's life's work as a realist painter: "I regard Beckman's self-obsession as the climactic statement of what Baudelaire called 'the cult of the self' that informs modern art." Always searching for certainty, Beckman is forever discontented with what he finds in his self-portraits, but the paintings that result from the journey are masterpieces of close scrutiny. His reputation has grown steadily since his first one-man show at New York's Allan Stone Gallery in 1970. Beckman has consistently studied the complexities of his subjects in highly detailed, often large-scale drawings and paintings through the decades when figuration was not as critically accepted as abstraction and conceptual art. Self-portrait Oil on wood panel, 1994 (background repainted in 2003)
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