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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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGPR_130129_01.JPG: Barack Obama, born 1961 In February 2007, when Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln had given his "House Divided" speech, few pundits gave him a chance to become America's forty-fourth president. However, the financial crisis just months before the election and the tremendous enthusiasm he generated as a candidate propelled him to a historic victory in 2008 as the first African American to hold that office. The Affordable Care Act and the killing of Osama bin Laden by a Navy Seal team are considered the high points of President Obama's first term. Before become president, Obama had been a community organizer in Chicago and served in the Illinois State Senate (1997-2004) and the US Senate (2004-8). Elected to a second term in 2012, he confronts daunting challenges: a sluggish economy, massive deficits, and the dangers of international terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Chuck Close, an artist famous since the late 1960s for his large-scale heads, suggests both Obama's challenges and his optimism in these tapestries. Based on photographs taken in 2012 and created as a campaign fundraiser, the pair capture the president's serious demeanor and his ready smile in a scale that can be read as both approachable and authoritative. Chuck Close, 2012
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4. SIPGPR_130803_01.JPG: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: The May 26, 1860, edition of Harper's Weekly included a biography of Abraham Lincoln, who had just won the Republican Party's nomination for president. The national convention had opened on May 16 in Chicago, a plus for the Illinois-raised Lincoln, but the frontrunner was William Seward of New York. Seward, however, had weakened his changes among moderate Republicans with his former antislavery radicalism. Lincoln's less-adamant position -- opposing only the extension of slavery into the territories -- was viewed as giving him strength in the "battleground" states of the lower North, which the Republicans had lost in the 1856 election. There were 465 delegates packed into the Chicago convention hall. Seward won on the first two ballots, with Lincoln coming in second. On the third ballot, four Ohioana switched their votes to Lincoln, followed by a wild stampede of delegates for the "rail splitter." Unidentified artist, after Mathew Brady, 1860
5. SIPGPR_130803_12.JPG: James K. Polk, 1795-1849 In explaining the transformation of the American presidency from the limited executive of the Constitution to Lincoln's expansion of the office, historians point to Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. However, James K. Polk may have been the strongest president in antebellum America. Polk, the youngest to occupy that office up to that time, had his cabinet officers sign a form letter agreeing to support his program and made it clear that although he desired harmony, "I intend to by myself President of the U.S." He confronted the two most difficult boundary issues in American history. In the matter of the disputed northern border, Polk looked John Bull "straight in the eye" and secured more of the Oregon Territory than the British wanted to give up. On the southern border, his resoluteness, seen by many as bellicosity, led to war with Mexico, resulting in the new American states of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Charles Fenderich, 1838
6. SIPGPR_130803_20.JPG: Indian Peace Medals: Indian peace medals are an important part of the history of US presidential portraiture and also an essential element in federal Indian policy. Presented to Indian chiefs on such important occasions as the signing of a treaty or a visit to the nation's capital, the medals gave rank and distinction, and many were passed down from generation to generation. In the first half of the nineteenth century, design was determined by the need to win the allegiance of the Indians. Medals contained the likeness of the president on one side and symbols of peace and friendship on the other. Acceptance of a medal marked the Indian's friendship and loyalty to the United States. By midcentury, the medals encouraged assimilation of the Indian into American society.
7. SIPGPR_130803_54.JPG: Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919 In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt won the presidency in a landslide. Out of respect to the two-term tradition, he immediately announced that he would not run again, although, as he became president after William McKinley's assassination in 1901, he would not have violated that tradition is he had run in 1908. Roosevelt was determined to break new paths after his presidency, even reverting to his title of "colonel." While president, the time he could devote to his interests in natural history, camping, and hunting in the wilderness had been severely curtailed; Roosevelt often complained about mobs of reporters following him around and his inability to get sufficient gunnery practice. He dreamed of a "great adventure" to Africa and began planning for the trip -- perhaps using the globe in the background -- in earnest during the last years of his presidency. Unidentified artist, c 1907
8. SIPGPR_130803_63.JPG: Theodore Roosevelt's family in the White House When this photograph was taken, the president's family was preparing to leave the White House, and Roosevelt's hand-picked successor, William Taft, was expected to become president. Immediately after his presidency, Roosevelt would travel to British East Africa (present-day Kenya). He had been planning, in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, a large safari to collect specimens for the natural museum. Roosevelt would just be fifty, young for an ex-president but not for the formidable risks of hunting big game. He had decided to take along his nineteen-year-old bookish son Kermit (second from left), and he wanted to toughen up the fragile young man and remove him from the influence of his mother. Edith Roosevelt had reconciled herself to her husband's craving for risk and adventure, trusting that Theodore's seeming invincibility would protect her more vulnerable son. Harris & Ewing Studio, 1908-9 Theodore Roosevelt posed for this photograph at Montauk, Long Island, shortly before his First Volunteer Cavalry Regiment-which fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War-was mustered out of service in September 1898. Later, Roosevelt described in a letter how he looked and dressed in the war. Unlike his image here, he said, "In Cuba I did not have the side of my hat turned up."
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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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