BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents:

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Description of Pictures: Including yet another Bill Clinton portrait, this one by Chuck Close. They definitely have trouble getting a decent one of this guy!

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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. SIPGPR_100131_02.JPG: Yet another Bill Clinton portrait. Eventually they'll find a good one...
2. SIPGPR_100131_06.JPG: William Jefferson Clinton born 1946 A key to Bill Clinton's successes as president, along with his resilience and personal affability, was his determination to govern through consensus. Major accomplishments, such as welfare reform, the first budget surplus since the late 1960s, and successful US intervention in the Balkans stemmed from this pragmatic viewpoint. Other proposals, such as universal health care, failed. His administration was plagued by several scandals, such as Whitewater and the consequences of his affair with a White House intern. His denial under oath about this relationship led to his impeachment. He was not convicted in the Senate trial, however, and his popularity actually increased as Americans continued to admire Clinton for this political talents, quick intelligence, and determination. Chuck Close begins all his paintings by taking a photograph of the subject, in this case a 2005 image made as a cover for New York Magazine. He then creates grids on both the canvas and the original image to replicate the information contained in the photograph with a series of abstract modules. Chuck Close (born 1940) Oil on canvas, 2006 Lent by Ian and Annette Cumming
3. SIPGPR_100131_34.JPG: Abraham Lincoln a month before his second inauguration: Lincoln's faint, tired smile in this likeness makes it one of he most compelling photographic images ever taken of him. For many years, it was commonly thought that this photograph dated from early April 1865 and that it was the last one every made of Lincoln. But in fact, it was part of a series of photographs taken at Alexander Gardner's Washington DC studio two months earlier, on February 5. The large glass negative that Gardner used for this particular portrait broke after it was developed, and just one print was made before the ruined negative was discarded. The portrait later acquired special significance when some interpreted the crack running through the image as a portent of Lincoln's assassination. Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) Polaroid facsimile of the original 1865 albumen silver print Courtesy of the Polaroid Corporation. This reproduction has replaced the original to protect it from further exposure to light.
4. SIPGPR_101120_07.JPG: George Washington, 1732-1799 Rembrandt Peale, son of American artist Charles Willson Peale, painted George Washington from life in 1795 when he was seventeen. He later made numerous portraits of the president based on his memory of this sitting and on likenesses by other artists. From these he developed an idealized image -- known by the Latin name "Patriae Pater" (Father of His Country) -- which served as a model for his many so-called "porthole" portraits of Washington. In these compositions, the subject's face is seen through an oval stonework frame -- an honorific convention in European art dating from the Renaissance. Rembrandt Peale, 1853
5. SIPGPR_101120_12.JPG: Martha Washington, 1831-1802 In 1749, Martha Dandridge married Daniel Parke Custis, the wealthiest planter in the colony. Seven years and four children later, she was a very wealthy widow. She married George Washington in 1759, pulling hum upward in Virginia's social and economic strata. Martha was viewed by contemporaries as a quiet, reserved woman capable of managing an estate, a comfortable fit for an ambitious planter. She contributed to her husband's climb to national leadership in numerous ways. During the Revolutionary War, Martha stayed with her husband in the army's winter encampment; she was a great comfort to George and a major factor in his being able to keep the army intact. She was also, along with her husband, influential in setting the atmosphere and tone of the presidency, which was so important to the new republic. Rembrandt Peale based his portrait on his father's (Charles Willson Peale's) 1795 likeness, adding a "porthole" as he did in his George Washington on view across the room. Rembrandt Peale, 1853
6. SIPGPR_101120_22.JPG: George Washington, 1732-1799 George Washington, appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental army, took command of a ragtag force of some 17,000 men in July 1775. He kept an army together for the next eight-and-a-half years -- losing more battles than he won -- but effectively ended the war with his victory at Yorktown in October 1781. Mission accomplished, Washington -- a hero who could have been kind -- resigned his military commission before Congress on December 23, 1783, and retired to Mount Vernon. Here, the man all artists yearned to portray posed in his Continental army uniform for English artist Robert Edge Pine and wryly observed, I" am so hackneyed to the touches of the Painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit like patience on a Monument." Robert Edge Pine, 1785
7. SIPGPR_101120_31.JPG: Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 This profile portrait was the work of Charles Bird King, who copied it from a likeness drawn by Gilbert Stuart during the fifth year of Jefferson's presidency. Of the two portraits Stuart painted of him, Jefferson seems to have much preferred the profile likeness. Most members of his immediate family shared that preference, and King made this copy from the Stuart original at the request of Jefferson's granddaughter, Virginia, and her husband, Nicholas Trist. Charles Bird King, after Gilbert Stuart, 1836
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Description of Subject Matter: The nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery’s mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it. Visitors will see an enhanced and extended display of multiple images of 42 presidents of the United States, including Gilbert Stuart’s “Lansdowne” portrait of George Washington, the famous “cracked plate” photograph of Abraham Lincoln and whimsical sculptures of Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush by noted caricaturist Pat Oliphant. Presidents Washington, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt will be given expanded attention because of their significant impact on the office. Presidents from FDR to Bill Clinton are featured in a video component of the exhibit.
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