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: Former President Barack Obama by Artist Kehinde Wiley
On February 13, 2018, the official portraits of the 44th President, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama were installed in America’s Presidents and Recent Acquisitions, respectively.
Barack Obama made history in 2009 by becoming the first African American president. The former Illinois state senator’s election signaled a feeling of hope for the future even as the U.S. was undergoing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. While working to improve the economy, Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act, extending health benefits to millions of previously uninsured Americans. Overseas, he oversaw the drawdown of American troops in the Middle East—a force reduction that was controversially replaced with an expansion of drone and aviation strikes. Though his mission to kill al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was successful, his pledge to close the Guantanamo prison went unrealized.
Artist Kehinde Wiley is known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African Americans posing as famous figures from the history of Western art. This portrait does not include an underlying art historical reference, but some of the flowers in the background carry special meaning for Obama. The chrysanthemums, for example, reference the official flower of Chicago. The jasmine evokes Hawaii, where he spent the majority of his childhood, and the African blue lilies stand in for his late Kenyan father.

Former First Lady, Michelle Obama by Artist Amy Sherald
February 13, 2018 – November 4, 2018
On February 13, 2018, the commissioned portraits of the 44th President, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama were installed in America’s Presidents and Recent Acquisitions, respectively.
Michelle Obama remembers growing up on the South Side of Chicago and thinking, “being smart is cooler than anything in the world.” After earning degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, she joined Sidley Austin LLP, where she met Barack Obama in 1989. Guided by the desire to improve her community, she left the firm in the mid-1990s to begin a career in public service. She directed community and external affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center prior to moving to Washington in 2009.
During her husband’s two presidential campaigns, Mrs. Obama delivered poignant speeches that cen-tered on her family’s commitment to serving others and highlighted the importance of her role as a parent. As first lady, she focused on women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, children’s health, and military families.
Mrs. Obama selected Amy Sherald, winner of the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, to create her official portrait for the museum. The Baltimore-based artist considers the former first lady to be someone “women can relate to—no matter what shape, size, race, or color. . . . We see our best selves in her.” Here, she portrays Mrs. Obama as both confident and approachable, in a dress by Michelle Smith’s label Milly.

I did a round looking for jewelry on the portraits. Until Richard Nixon's portrait, none of them had wristwatches. Wedding rings showed up a bit earlier with Benjamin Harrison but only three presidents -- McKinley, Harrison, and Harding -- had weddings before the Bill Clinton portrait was unveiled on April 26, 2006. True to form, the original Clinton portrait had taken heat from the GOP-leaning nuts who said the lack of a wedding ring proved he was a philander. Since Bush 2, every portrait has both a wristwatch and a wedding ring. Obama's follows this pattern.

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1. SIPGPR_180221_005.JPG: Barack Obama, born 1961 Forty-fourth president, 2009–2017 Barack Obama made history in 2009 by becoming the first African American president. The former Illinois state senator's election signaled a feeling of hope for the future even as the U.S. was undergoing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. While working to improve the economy, Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act, extending health benefits to millions of previously uninsured Americans. Overseas, he oversaw the drawdown of American troops in the Middle East -- a force reduction that was controversially replaced with an expansion of drone and aviation strikes. Though his mission to kill al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was successful, his pledge to close the Guantanamo prison went unrealized. Artist Kehinde Wiley is known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African Americans posing as famous figures from the history of Western art. This portrait does not include an underlying art historical reference, but some of the flowers in the background carry special meaning for Obama. The chrysanthemums, for example, reference the official flower of Chicago. The jasmine evokes Hawaii, where he spent the majority of his childhood, and the African blue lilies stand in for his late Kenyan father. Kehinde Wiley, 2018
2. SIPGPR_180221_017.JPG: Barack Obama, born 1961 (Kehinde Wiley portrait) (detail) Like with George W. Bush, Obama's portrait has both a wedding band and a wrist watch. Apparently this is now standard on presidential portraits.
3. SIPGPR_180221_036.JPG: Gift of Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and Kent Whealy; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia; Clarence, DeLoise, and Brenda Gaines; The Stoneridge Fund of Amy and Marc Meadows; Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker; Catherine and Michael Podell; Mark and Cindy Aron; Lyndon J. Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois; The Honorable John and Louise Bryson; Paul and Rose Carter; Bob and Jane Clark; Lisa R. Davis; Shirley Ross Davis and Family; Alan and Lois Fern; Conrad and Constance Hipkins; Sharon and John Hoffman; Daniel and Kimberly Johnson; John Legend and Chrissy Teigen; Eileen Harris Norton; Helen Hilton Raiser; Philip and Elizabeth Ryan; Roselyne Chroman Swig; Josef Vascovitz and Lisa Goodman; Michele J. Hooper and Lemuel Seabrook III; The Skylark Foundation; Cleveland and Harriette Chambliss; Anna Chavez and Eugene Eidenberg; Carla Diggs & Stephen M. Smith; Danny First; Peggy Woodford Forbes and Harry Bremond; Stephen Friedman Gallery; Sean and Mary Kelly, Sean Kelly Gallery; Jamie Lunder; Joff Masukawa and Noëlle Kennedy Masukawa; Derek McGinty and Cheryl Cooper; Robert and Jan Newman; The Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. and Sanda O. Ocampo Family Trust; Julie and Bennett Roberts; Paul Sack; Gertrude Dixon Sherman; Michael and Mary Silver; V. Joy Simmons, MD; Andrea Lavin Solow and Alan P. Solow; John Sykes; Galerie Templon; Henry L. Thaggert III
4. SIPGPR_180221_054.JPG: Michelle Obama Born Chicago, Illinois Michelle Obama remembers growing up on the South Side of Chicago and thinking, "being smart is cooler than anything in the world." After earning degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, she joined Sidley Austin LLP, where she met Barack Obama in 1989. Guided by the desire to improve her community, she left the firm in the mid-1990s to begin a career in public service. She directed community and external affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center prior to moving to Washington in 2009. During her husband's two presidential campaigns, Mrs. Obama delivered poignant speeches that centered on her family's commitment to serving others and highlighted the importance of her role as a parent. As first lady, she focused on women's rights, LGBTQ rights, children's health, and military families. Mrs. Obama selected Amy Sherald, winner of the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, to create her official portrait for the museum. The Baltimore-based artist considers the former first lady to be someone "women can relate to -- no matter what shape, size, race, or color. . . . We see our best selves in her." Here, she portrays Mrs. Obama as both confident and approachable, in a dress by Michelle Smith's label Milly. Amy Sherald, 2018
5. SIPGPR_180221_074.JPG: The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt With the exception of Abraham Lincoln, no president has ever taken office against a darker backdrop than Franklin D. Roosevelt did on March 4, 1933. With banks failing and unemployment at 28 percent, a total national collapse seemed possible, and the day's gray weather only reinforced the bleak mood. The carefully chosen words of Roosevelt's inaugural speech, however, briefly lifted the gloom, and when he broke into a confident smile at the close, the crowd cheered in relief. The optimism of that moment grew in the coming months as Roosevelt's New Dealers launched a series of innovative measures to end the Great Depression. Mexican caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias produced this rendering of Roosevelt's inauguration for Vanity Fair, which billed it as a panorama of "magnificos, diplomats, and military commanders." In the lower right is the doleful "Forgotten Man," wearing a sandwich board -- a grim reminder of the country's dire straits. Miguel Covarrubias, 1933
6. SIPGPR_180221_090.JPG: The misspelling of the word "inauguration" irks me
7. SIPGPR_180228_001.JPG: Michelle LeVaughn Robinson Obama Born Chicago, Illinois Michelle Obama remembers growing up on the South Side of Chicago and thinking, "being smart is cooler than anything in the world." After earning degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, she joined Sidley Austin LLP, where she met Barack Obama in 1989. Guided by the desire to improve her community, she left the firm in the mid-1990s to begin a career in public service. She directed community and external affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center prior to moving to Washington in 2009. During her husband's two presidential campaigns, Mrs. Obama delivered poignant speeches that centered on her family's commitment to serving others and highlighted the importance of her role as a parent. As first lady, she focused on women's rights, LGBTQ rights, children's health, and military families. Mrs. Obama selected Amy Sherald, winner of the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, to create her official portrait for the museum. The Baltimore-based artist considers the former first lady to be someone "women can relate to -- no matter what shape, size, race, or color. . . . We see our best selves in her." Here, she portrays Mrs. Obama as both confident and approachable, in a dress by Michelle Smith's label Milly. Amy Sherald, 2018
8. SIPGPR_180228_024.JPG: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 Born Hardin County, Kentucky Abraham Lincoln was becoming a national celebrity during the summer of 1860, but some worried that his appearance might cost him votes. Philadelphia supporter John M. Read hired John Henry Brown to make a good, small portrait that would serve as the basis for a printed campaign image. Brown had five sittings with the candidate but also based the image on several ambrotypes taken in Illinois. Lincoln's secretary thought the result was "so well executed that when magnified to life size one cannot discover any defects of brush marks on it at all." John Henry Brown, 1860
9. SIPGPR_180228_032.JPG: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 Born Hardin County, Kentucky Mathew Brady's first portrait of Abraham Lincoln played a significant role in shaping Lincoln's public image during the 1860 presidential campaign. Taken on February 27, 1860 -- the day Lincoln delivered his stirring address on slavery at the Cooper Union in New York -- the photograph revealed a candidate whose dignified bearing stood in sharp contrast to the unflattering characterizations spread by his detractors. The portrait circulated in a variety of formats, including this broochlike campaign pin, made by the Boston photographer George Clark, who had copied Brady's original print. George Clark, after Mathew Brady, 1860
10. SIPGPR_180228_047.JPG: William McKinley, 1843-1901 Twenty-fifth president 1897–1901 Like other presidents elected during the post–Civil War era, William McKinley served in the Union army, where he rose from private to major. He then progressed from U.S. representative to governor of Ohio, and finally, to president. In the 1896 election, he defeated the populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a landslide victory, thereby cementing the Republican Party's conservative pro-business platform. The Spanish-American War, which lasted from April to August of 1898, was conducted under the pretext of freeing Cuba. The war guided much of McKinley's foreign policy and resulted in the United States acquiring the territories of Guam, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico -- marking the young nation as a budding global power. After his reelection in 1900, McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, underscoring the unending social and political unrest of the 1890s. McKinley is remembered for his patience and kindness, and for the dedication he showed his wife, Ida, who struggled with epilepsy and the deaths of their infant daughters. August Benziger, 1897
11. SIPGPR_180228_052.JPG: William McKinley, 1843-1901 (August Benziger portrait) (detail) Photographing wedding rings. Four presidential portraits had rings before the Baby Bush portrait was unveiled.
12. SIPGPR_180228_061.JPG: Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901 Twenty-third president, 1889-1893 Although the United States is a popular democracy, the American electorate has shown a predisposition for political dynasties such as the Adamses, the Kennedys, and the Bushes. Benjamin Harrison, an Indianapolis lawyer, came from a political family and was the grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison. Benjamin's political career, like his grandfather's, was aided by his military service. During the Civil War, he raised the Seventieth Indiana Regiment, which would be instrumental in the capture of Atlanta. Ending his military career in 1865 as a brigadier general, Harrison became involved in Indiana politics and was elected to the Senate in 1881. A compromise nominee of the Republican Party for the presidency in 1888, he defeated incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland in the general election. Harrison's presidency was dominated by economic issues, especially high taxes -- or tariffs -- but the growth of government spending on his watch caused a backlash, and Cleveland came back to defeat him in the 1892 election. Theodore Clement Steele, 1900 Lent by Harrison Residence Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
13. SIPGPR_180228_065.JPG: Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901 (Theodore Clement Steele portrait) (detail) One of the presidential portraits with rings. Benjamin Harrison. This one actually looks like a wedding band.
14. SIPGPR_180228_073.JPG: Warren G. Harding, 1865-1923 Twenty-ninth president, 1921–1923 On November 2, 1920, less than three months after the nineteenth amendment had been signed into law, men -- and women -- elected Warren Harding to serve as their president. The former governor and senator from Ohio, who entered the White House following an era of upheaval, promised to restore "normalcy" after a period marked by sweeping social reforms and World War I. Under Harding's leadership, the U.S. dampened a naval arms race with Japan and Great Britain, but in doing so, it agreed to provisions that in effect ceded naval control of the western Pacific to the Japanese, and that set the stage for future conflicts. Harding, who was an inept judge of character, is often criticized for having trusted corrupt cronies with positions of power. Scandals plagued his administration, but because he died in office just as the accounts of wrongdoing were surfacing, they remain opaque. Margaret Lindsay Williams, 1923
15. SIPGPR_180228_079.JPG: Warren G. Harding, 1865-1923 (Margaret Lindsay Williams portrait) (detail) Warren G. Harding's ring. It doesn't look like a wedding band to me.
16. SIPGPR_180228_086.JPG: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945 Thirty-second president, 1933–1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose presidency began in the throes of the Great Depression, led the United States out of its devastating financial crisis. During his first few months in office, he established the New Deal -- a set of ambitious government programs that supported public works projects, put forth banking and business regulations, and offered other forms of federal relief. After the United States entered World War II in 1941, he decided to seek a third term, pointing out that one should never change horses in midstream. In the diplomatic summits with Britain's Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt not only prosecuted the war but helped lay the groundwork for the postwar world. In March 1945, Douglas Chandor spent several days at the White House, where he made sketches for a group portrait of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to mark their conference the previous month at Yalta, a resort on the Black Sea. The artist wished the painting to be "a conversation about peace," but it was never realized because Stalin refused to sit for the portrait. Chandor included the composition for the painting on this canvas, along with studies of Roosevelt's hands. Douglas Chandor, 1945
17. SIPGPR_180228_095.JPG: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945 (Douglas Chandor portrait) (detail) Nope. Not a wedding band either.
18. SIPGPR_180228_101.JPG: Richard M. Nixon, 1913-1994 Thirty-seventh president, 1969–1974 Coming of political age during the Cold War, Richard Nixon used national security issues to gain prominence in Congress and later served as Eisenhower's vice president. After he lost both the election for the presidency, in 1960, and the race for California governor, in 1962, it seemed as though his career may have peaked in the 1950s. However, as the Democratic Party unraveled over such topics as the Vietnam War and civil rights, Nixon won the presidency in 1968. During his tenure, which was cut short, he focused on foreign policy, particularly with regard to ending the Vietnam War and establishing a relationship with China. The scandal over the Watergate break-in and the subsequent cover-up morphed into a crisis over presidential misconduct, and in 1974, he became the first -- and so far the only -- president to resign. In 1968, Look magazine hired Norman Rockwell to portray the newly elected president. Admitting that Nixon's appearance was troublesomely elusive, Rockwell chose to intentionally flatter him. If he was going to err in his portrayal, he said, he wanted it to be in the direction that would please his subject. Norman Rockwell, 1968
19. SIPGPR_180228_107.JPG: Richard M. Nixon, 1913-1994 (Norman Rockwell portrait) (detail) The first presidential portrait wearing a watch.
20. SIPGPR_180228_120.JPG: George W. Bush, born 1946 Forty-third president, 2001–2009 Like John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, Texasborn Republican George W. Bush was the eldest son of a president. Also like Adams, Bush was elected in a close and controversial election against a Democratic vice president. Bush's victory over Al Gore was ultimately decided by a Supreme Court ruling with regard to recounting votes in Florida. Expecting that his presidency would center largely on domestic issues, he instead found his two terms dominated by a series of cataclysmic events. Above all, there were the terrorist attacks of 9/11, which required the development of a policy to fight al-Qaeda and worldwide terrorism. Abroad, Bush mounted major military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. At home, he faced the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and a major financial crisis. Despite Bush's efforts to safeguard the country's security and welfare, criticism that his administration had been ineffectual caused him to leave office with his reputation at a low ebb. Bush selected Robert Anderson, a Connecticut portraitist and a Yale classmate of his, to create this painting for the National Portrait Gallery. He requested an informal image and posed at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. Robert Anderson, 2008
21. SIPGPR_180228_129.JPG: George W. Bush, born 1946 (Robert Anderson portrait) (detail) George W. Bush, trying to avoid the "scandal" of the Clinton portrait not having a wedding band, is the second presidential portrait to include a wedding band. It is the second (after Richard Nixon) to have a wristwatch.
22. SIPGPR_180228_138.JPG: George W. Bush, born 1946 (Robert Anderson portrait) (detail) The George W. Bush wrist watch has an American flag on it.
23. SIPGPR_180228_167.JPG: Barack Obama, born 1961 Forty-fourth president, 2009–2017 Barack Obama made history in 2009 by becoming the first African American president. The former Illinois state senator's election signaled a feeling of hope for the future even as the U.S. was undergoing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. While working to improve the economy, Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act, extending health benefits to millions of previously uninsured Americans. Overseas, he oversaw the drawdown of American troops in the Middle East -- a force reduction that was controversially replaced with an expansion of drone and aviation strikes. Though his mission to kill al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was successful, his pledge to close the Guantanamo prison went unrealized. Artist Kehinde Wiley is known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African Americans posing as famous figures from the history of Western art. This portrait does not include an underlying art historical reference, but some of the flowers in the background carry special meaning for Obama. The chrysanthemums, for example, reference the official flower of Chicago. The jasmine evokes Hawaii, where he spent the majority of his childhood, and the African blue lilies stand in for his late Kenyan father. Kehinde Wiley, 2018
24. SIPGPR_181205_01.JPG: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 Midway through the first term of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Time magazine ran this cover and an accompanying story, titled "How Reagan Decides." At the time, Reagan and his chief advisers were preparing a budget with a proposed deficit of about $155 billion, more "than twice as large as any recorded by a previous administration" and contrary to Reagan's major tenets of restrained government spending and balanced budgets. In spite of the record-high tallies, in Reagan's mind he was not violating his long-held principles, but rather working toward them in the long run. He believed that his tax cuts, "slashes in social spending," and a revived economy would soon shrink the deficits. Reagan's reelection in 1984 was yet another testament to his optimism and to his uncanny ability to communicate with the American people. Mark English (born 1933) Oil and pastel on canvas mounted on board, 1982 Time cover, December 13, 1982
25. SIPGPR_181205_14.JPG: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 6 Feb 1911 - 5 Jun 2004 Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr., 4 Nov 1916 - 17 Jul 2009 James Scott Brady, 29 Aug 1940 - 4 Aug 2014 David Richmond Gergen, born 9 May 1942 Edwin Meese, III, born 1931 George Herbert Walker Bush, 12 Jun 1924 - 30 Nov 2018 James Addison Baker III, born 28 Apr 1930 Burton Benjamin, 1917 - 1988 Diana Walker, 1981 (printed 2011)
26. SIPGPR_181205_23.JPG: Mariners Jacques Lowe, 1960 (printed 1999)
27. SIPGPR_181205_30.JPG: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 Pietro Annigoni, 1961
28. SIPGPR_181205_38.JPG: I Want You When James Montgomery Flagg drew his famous World War I "I Want You" recruiting poster, he turned to the mirror for his craggy image of Uncle Sam. Although inspired by the British image of a pointing Lord Kitchener, Flagg's version captured the public's imagination with special effectiveness. Along with the stern features of the self-portrait, the foreshortened hand gesture forged a personal connection with the viewer. A generation later, Flagg translated that familiar image into this presidential campaign piece promoting Franklin D. Roosevelt's unprecedented fourth term. The poster coyly avoids asking for votes, suggesting instead that America's duty was to convince the incumbent to run in order to "finish the job." The poster was issued by the Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt, founded in 1944 to promote a fourth term, with the expectation that the president could deliver both victory and a progressive peace settlement. James Montgomery Flagg, c 1944
29. SIPGPR_181205_48.JPG: Franklin D. Roosevelt Harris & Ewing Studio, 1933
30. SIPGPR_181205_64.JPG: Andrew Jackson Thomas Sully, c 1819
31. SIPGPR_181205_70.JPG: Andrew Jackson Born in the Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina Beginning with George Washington's administration, presidential portrait medals were created to promote peace and friendship between Euro-Americans and Native Americans. Typically manufactured at the U.S. Mint, these "peace medals" were most often given to Native American representatives during treaty negotiations. While some of the original intentions may have been good-willed, a number of government policies, particularly Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, undermined the purpose of these medals. Obverse: Moritz Furst Reverse: John Reich 1831-1832, medal inscribed 1829
32. SIPGPR_181205_76.JPG: Dead March and Monody Unidentified artist, after Gilbert Stuart Song by composer Benjamin Carr, 1799-1800
33. SIPGPR_181211_33.JPG: Ulysses S. Grant, 1822-1885 Ulysses S. Grant was a West Point graduate who had no real ambition to be in the military: he wanted to be a teacher. Nonetheless, he served with distinction in the Mexican-American War. After resigning from the army in peacetime, he reenlisted during the Civil War. Following a series of victories, Grant was brought east by Lincoln to command the Union armies. His unrelenting campaign against Robert E. Lee, in 1864–65, finally won the war for the North. Grant was ultimately elected president, but the powers of command he displayed in the army seemed to abandon him when he reached the White House. He was unable to manage the politics of Reconstruction, and his hands-off attitude spawned an outbreak of federal corruption. Shortly after his presidency, Grant posed for the artist Thomas Le Clear. Grant owned this portrait, while a second, larger version entered the White House collection. Thomas Le Clear, c 1880
34. SIPGPR_181211_39.JPG: George Washington, 1732-1799 In 1795, the Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale persuaded President George Washington to pose for his seventeen-year-old son Rembrandt, who wanted to paint the president's portrait. Upon learning that Rembrandt was joined in the painting room by his father, his brother Raphaelle, and his Uncle James (all artists), Gilbert Stuart quipped that the president was in danger of being "Pealed all around." Rembrandt Peale's original life portrait is now in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He once stated that he had painted ten replicas, but only two are known -- this example and one in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), 1795
35. SIPGPR_181211_45.JPG: George Washington, 1732-1799 Charles Willson Peale, 1795 or later
36. SIPGPR_181211_57.JPG: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969 by Thomas E. Stephens, 1955
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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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