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1. SIPGPR_190101_01.JPG: The black border has been removed, after being around the frame for 30 days.
2. SIPGPR_190101_15.JPG: You can see the faint impression on the floor (bottom right) of the stand where the comment book rested.
3. SIPGPR_190129_64.JPG: The Smithsonian museums reopened on Tuesday (except for the Renwick Gallery which is still removing the Burning Man exhibit) after the 35-day Trump Shutdown. But rain, snow, and ice forecasts kept most people away. As a result, I got to see something at the National Portrait Gallery that I'd never seen before -- the President Barack Obama portrait without a huge crowd of people waiting to stare, photograph, and be photographed with.
4. SIPGPR_191017_005.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
5. SIPGPR_191017_023.JPG: George Washington and Benjamin Franklin This print, depicting George Washington (1732–1799) and Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) facing each other in profile, was published in the Columbian Magazine (Philadelphia, March 1788). However, it was copied from an early edition of the Swiss author Johan Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1775–78), which proposed a person's character was evident in their expressions, facial features, and head shape. The magazine's author quoted Lavater's analysis of Washington's silhouetted profile, noting his good qualities and adding, "the original must be distinguished by an indefatigable activity -- a man who acts with prudence, and always with dignity." Unidentified artist, 1788
6. SIPGPR_191017_059.JPG: George Washington, 1732-1799 Born Westmoreland County, Virginia Edward Savage's mezzotint engraving portrays George Washington as the nation's president rather than as a general: he wears a black velvet suit and not a military uniform. In his hand is a plan of the new capital city named in his honor. While in London, Savage adapted the pose of this elegant print from one of his own paintings. Washington's face, however, was based on an earlier portrait that Savage had painted from life between 1789, the year he was inaugurated as president, and 1790. The caption at the bottom of this print refers to the latter work. On October 6, 1793, Savage sent his subject an impression of this mezzotint, along with a portrait print he had made of Benjamin Franklin. In the accompanying letter, the artist expressed his hope that "it will meet with the approbation of yourself and Mrs. Washington as it is the first I ever published in that method of Engraving." Edward Savage, 1793
7. SIPGPR_191017_064.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
8. SIPGPR_191017_078.JPG: Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845 Thomas Sully, c 1819
9. SIPGPR_191017_095.JPG: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848 Born Braintree, Massachusetts Created in March 1843, this daguerreotype is the earliest known photographic portrait of an American president. John Quincy Adams completed his single presidential term in 1829 and was serving as a congressman from Massachusetts when he visited the Washington, D.C., studio of Philip Haas. Intrigued by daguerreotypy, which Haas had described to him as "a chemical process upon mercury, silver, gold and iodine," Adams noted in his diary, "The operation is performed in half a minute but is yet altogether incomprehensible to me." Philip Haas, 1843
10. SIPGPR_191017_117.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
11. SIPGPR_191017_129.JPG: Theodore Roosevelt and His Cabinet In this photograph, President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) sits with the members of his executive cabinet. The year 1906, when this photograph was taken, was especially productive for the reform- minded administration. For example, Roosevelt signed the Hepburn Act, which increased federal regulation of such giant monopolies as John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and J.P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company. Previously, these companies and others had been fixing railroad shipping rates to their advantage. Roosevelt also signed the Pure Food and Drug Act, as well as the Meat Inspection Act, to provide basic levels of consumer protections. As president, he initiated many new conservation measures, including the Antiquities Act, which he ultimately used to designate eighteen new national monuments. Finally, Roosevelt was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his successful efforts the previous year to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Harris & Ewing Studio, 1906
12. SIPGPR_191017_141.JPG: Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919 Born New York City Pirie MacDonald described Theodore Roosevelt's sitting in 1915 as one of his most difficult, and it is not hard to speculate why. Roosevelt had recently returned from an exploratory scientific expedition in South America, where he contracted malaria and an infection in his leg, both of which would plague him the rest of his life. Moreover, Roosevelt spent the first part of that year defending himself against libel charges levied by Albany Times-Union owner William Barnes Jr., whom the former president had accused of corruption and political meddling. In May of that year, a German U-boat sank the ocean liner Lusitania, resulting in the drowning of almost 1,200 passengers, among them 128 Americans. Afterwards, Roosevelt traveled the country speaking about military preparedness and decrying President Wilson's attempts to stay out of World War I. He also engaged in unlovely politics, ridiculing immigrants from Germany and Ireland as unpatriotic. Pirie MacDonald, 1915
13. SIPGPR_191017_149.JPG: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945 Born Hyde Park, New York Artist Herman Perlman was born in Poland and lived in Russia until 1914, when his family immigrated to Columbus, Ohio. In 1924, he moved to Washington, D.C., and studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in nearby Baltimore. When he created this likeness, Perlman had already been drawing portraits, particularly caricatures, for nearly ten years. Here, he depicts the president as a debonair yet slightly self-satisfied figure, emphasizing his patrician background. Perlman often made caricatures for the Washington Post. When the paper periodically laid him off during the Depression, he took side jobs for theaters and other organizations. Perlman drew caricatures of many public figures, including Andrew Mellon, Will Rogers, Herbert Hoover, and Dean Acheson. His subjects were rarely offended by his clever likenesses. In fact, many autographed the original drawings, just as Roosevelt signed this portrait. Herman Perlman, 1935
14. SIPGPR_191017_165.JPG: Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Yalta Despite his failing health leading up to 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was determined to end the Second World War. After he was elected to an unprecedented fourth term in 1944, Roosevelt threw himself into discussions with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. He met them in Yalta, Soviet Crimea, where they negotiated the division of Germany, the governance of liberated Europe, and aid from the U.S.S.R. on the Pacific front. The conference resulted in the re-mapping of Poland's borders. Free elections in Poland became a condition of the conference -- but Stalin immediately defaulted. Though Roosevelt expressed his outrage over the betrayal, he never made it to the follow-up conference that would have addressed Stalin's duplicity. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, just weeks before the allies would reconvene and mere months before the war's end. Samariy Gurariy, 1945
15. SIPGPR_191017_174.JPG: John and Jacqueline Kennedy The 1953 marriage of John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) and Jacqueline Bouvier (1929–1994) was the event of the season. Both were from wealthy, influential New England families in the public eye. John was a war hero and rising political star, and Jackie was a stylish photographer-reporter, who had covered high-profile events such as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Portrayed by the world-renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh in 1957, the Kennedys epitomized the power couple at the time. That year, Jackie gave birth to their oldest child, Caroline Kennedy. Additionally, John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage (1956), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography. Still four years from his presidency, Kennedy was working in the Senate to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which would uphold progress made toward desegregation. Soon after, the couple began campaigning for his reelection to the Senate. Yousuf Karsh, 1957
16. SIPGPR_191017_188.JPG: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 Born Brookline, Massachusetts When elected to the U.S. Senate in 1953, Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy was no stranger to the U.S. Capitol Building, having served Massachusetts in the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He then won the Senate seat from Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., even though the Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower carried Massachusetts in the presidential election. During his time in the Senate, Kennedy was especially responsive to constituent issues, despite suffering major health issues in the first years of his term. At the height of Joseph McCarthy's Red Scare, Kennedy condemned the senator's methods. In doing so, he risked political backlash in his home state, where McCarthy was popular. As senator, Kennedy crusaded for labor reform and civil rights, concerns that would characterize his political career. In 1961, eight years after being elected senator, Kennedy would become the thirty-fifth president of the United States. Arnold A. Newman, 1953
17. SIPGPR_191017_204.JPG: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter This photograph captures the first time that four U.S. presidents gathered in the White House at once. They came together in order to make a plan to represent the United States during an important ally's funeral. On October 6, 1981, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, the author of significant peace negotiations with Israel, was assassinated during a parade in Cairo. Sitting President Ronald Reagan had survived an assassination attempt earlier that year, and government security agencies recommended that he not attend the funeral. Instead, the U.S. was represented by a delegation of the three former presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon. Despite their combative election campaigns and differing ideologies, the presidents ultimately agreed to come together to honor Sadat. Although they made a show of solidarity, photographers noticed Carter's discomfort during the send-off. Carter, who considered Sadat a close friend, viewed Reagan's decision not to attend as cowardly. George Tames, 1981
18. SIPGPR_191017_212.JPG: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004 Born Tampico, Illinois This photograph of Ronald Reagan leading his beloved horse El Alamein undoubtedly captures a lesser-known side of him. According to Reagan's biographer Edmund Morris, to truly understand the man, one must visit Reagan's retreat, Rancho del Cielo. The 688-acre property is located seven miles up a steep canyon road from the Pacific Ocean and nestled in the Santa Ynez Mountains. After Reagan bought the ranch in 1974, it became his favorite home. Despite objections from aides, Reagan returned there often during his presidency. He had learned to ride horseback in the late 1930s while serving in the U.S. Cavalry Reserve. The president's joyful quotation of Xenophon's Art of Horsemanship conveys his love of horses: "There is nothing quite so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse." Henry Benson, 1983
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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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