Bruce Guthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture -- Backstage Civil War tour

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture -- Backstage Civil War tour -- Notes:

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2013_02_01O_CCWP_Dream_LOC: DC -- CCWP Dream Day -- Group in Library of Congress (40 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01C_CCWP_Dream_SIPG1: DC -- CCWP Dream Day -- Group in Portrait Gallery (72 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01S_CCWP_Dream_Castle: DC -- CCWP Dream Day -- Group in Smithsonian Castle (27 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01H_SIPG_Bound: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center -- Special Exhibits -- Bound For Freedom's Light (33 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01D_SIPG_CWBS: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture -- Backstage Civil War tour (21 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01I_SIPG_CW: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture -- Civil War (2 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01J_SIPG_Portrait: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture -- Portraits (4 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01P_LOC_PPD: DC -- Library of Congress -- Prints and Photographs Division pieces (78 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01T_SI_Castle_BS: DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Backstage tour (62 photos from 02/01/2013)
2013_02_01R_SI_Castle_CWP: DC -- Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) -- Civil War Photography (42 photos from 02/01/2013)

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Description of Subject Matter: The country's original patent office building burned down in 1836. From 1839 to 1866, another was built. Designed by Robert Mills who also designed the Capitol and Treasury buildings, it was based in part on the design of the Parthenon with marble hallways and Doric columns. During the Civil War, it was used as both a troop barracks and a hospital; both Clara Barton and Walt Whitman nursed wounded soldiers here. Abraham Lincoln held his second inaugural ball in the main gallery in March 1865, one month before his assassination. When the building's construction was finished, it was the largest building in the country. The Patent Office moved to the Dept of Commerce building in 1932. The Civil Service Commission took over until they moved to their new headquarters in 1960. Saved from destruction by the Commission of Fine Arts, the building was turned over to the Smithsonian which established two galleries -- the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American Art -- in the building.

The building closed in January 2000 for a $200 million renovation. It reopened on July 1, 2006. In the interim, it beefed up its virtual presence on the Web at http://www.npg.si.edu and had a number of exhibits have been touring the country. One of those is on American woman and "A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery". In the spring of 2001, a generous $30 million donation from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas, Nevada allowed it to purchase the "Lansdowne" portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart.

The building closed well before I purchased my first digital camera and once it reopened, I found myself taking lots and lots of pictures. For example, during the reopening day on July 1, 2006, I took over 3,500 pictures. To keep the numbers on each page smaller, I separated them out by theme, sometimes somewhat arbitrarily, so you'll see separate listings for:
-- America's Presidents (paintings, sculpture, etc ...More...
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGBS_130201_040.JPG: Stonewall Jackson
2. SIPGBS_130201_100.JPG: James Buchanan
3. SIPGBS_130201_111.JPG: Jefferson Davis
4. SIPGBS_130201_120.JPG: Alexander Stephens
5. SIPGBS_130201_168.JPG: Robert E. Lee
6. SIPGBS_130201_171.JPG: Camp Sprague, 1st Rhode Island Militia Near Washington DC, 1861 Ambrose Burnside is in the middle
7. SIPGBS_130201_291.JPG: Lincoln and McClellan at Antietam
8. SIPGBS_130201_362.JPG: Color-reverse image of previous image.
9. SIPGBS_130201_385.JPG: Color-reverse image of previous image.
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Directly Related Pages: Other pages here that have content directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos]
- 1997_DC_SIPG: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture (5 photos from 1997)
- 1998_DC_SIPG: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture (4 photos from 1998)
- 1999_DC_SIPG: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center for Amer Art & Portraiture (2 photos from 1999)
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2013 photos: So far, my camera is mostly the Fuji X-S1 but, depending on the event, I'm also using a Nikon D7000 and Nikon D600. Trips this year have been limited to a Civil War Trust conference in Memphis.
Photo Contact: Email Bruce Guthrie.