BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: Sitting Pretty: 200 Years of American Portrait Painting

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: Sitting Pretty: 200 Years of American Portrait Painting:

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Description of Pictures: Sitting Pretty: 200 Years of American Portrait Painting from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
September 10 – December 11, 2022

Sitting Pretty: Two Hundred Years of American Portrait Painting from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art features a selection from the nearly one hundred portraits in oil that the American University Museum at the Katzen Center received from the oldest museum in Washington when it was dissolved in 2014. Among the artists from the colonial period to the present included in this compelling exhibition, all of whom were important in their day, are Edward Savage, John Wollaston, Thomas Sully, Henry Inman, George Peter Alexander Healy, Frank Duveneck, Julian Alden Weir, and Edmund Tarbell. Portraits by Charles Dunn, Edgar Nye, Richard Lahey, Eugen Weisz, and Rebecca Davenport speak specifically to the Washington art community in the middle decades of the twentieth century.
This exhibition is organized by Carolyn Kinder Carr, former National Portrait Gallery Deputy Director and Chief Curator.

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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. PRETTY_220910_001.JPG: Sitting Pretty: 200 Years of American Portrait Painting
2. PRETTY_220910_006.JPG: Louis Betts Yvonne, 1918-1921
3. PRETTY_220910_015.JPG: George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) In 1834, George Peter Alexander Healy, the talented but largely self-taught Boston-born artist, left his moderately successful New England portrait practice to study abroad. While in Paris, he caught the eye of Louis Philippe (1773-1850), King of France, who, before he was deposed in 1848, commissioned portraits of notable Americans and Europeans from Healy. Among the eighteen likenesses of Americans were those of six presidents. For these paintings, Healy returned to America to paint copies of well-known images of George Washington, John Adams, James Madison and James Monroe and to secure life sittings from John Tyler and Andrew Jackson. In 1855 the peripatetic Healy, who crisscrossed the Atlantic as if the Concorde were available to him, established his studio in Chicago. There he began a series of portraits of distinguished Americans, many of which were replicas of his earlier portraits of the presidents. Chicago businessman and philanthropist Thomas B. Bryan (1828-1906) acquired most of these for display in the Bryan Music Hall. Bryan also commissioned the portrait of Abraham Lincoln, who, as president-elect, sat for Healy in November 1860. In 1879, when Bryan's collection of portraits became available, William Wilson Corcoran purchased fourteen paintings of presidents for the Corcoran Gallery of Art to add to the museum's ever- growing collection of distinguished individuals. Corcoran and the museum's trustees clearly envisioned the Corcoran Gallery of Art as an appropriate venue for a national portrait gallery. As curator William MacLeod noted at the time of the initial acquisition, "This interesting and valuable series of portraits of our presidents shows the determination of Mr. Corcoran and the trustees to make national portraiture a strong point in the gallery." In 1884, the museum trustees commissioned Healy to paint the portrait of then president Chester A. Arthur for the gallery's collection. Today these fifteen presidential portraits reside in three Washington museums. The portraits of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are at the National Gallery of Art. The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution acquired the portraits of Chester Arthur, James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren. The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center received the portraits of John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. Ever restless, Healy remained in his Midwest home until 1869, when he returned to Europe, living first in Rome, but settling in Paris in late 1873. In 1892 Chicago became his final home. Early in his career, Louis Philippe's patronage cemented Healy's reputation as an able artist. During his lifetime the talented Healy would paint more than 1,000 portraits, not only of presidents but also those of the wealthy and the socially well-connected who relished his celebrity.
4. PRETTY_220910_022.JPG: Edmund Charles Tarbell Charles Carroll Glover, 1918
5. PRETTY_220910_027.JPG: John Christen Johansen Cuthbert Powell Minnigerode, 1942
6. PRETTY_220910_034.JPG: Eugen Weisz Self-Portrait, c 1940s
7. PRETTY_220910_045.JPG: Richard Lahey Carlotta, 1943
8. PRETTY_220910_055.JPG: Richard Sumner Meryman Ruth Weitkamp Glenn, 1930
9. PRETTY_220910_060.JPG: Louis Schanker Marchal E. Landgren, c 1935/1939
10. PRETTY_220910_065.JPG: Moses Soyer Seated Dancer, c 1957
11. PRETTY_220910_079.JPG: Alexander Robertson James Alice Caroline Stanley Acheson (Mrs. Dean Acheson), 1937
12. PRETTY_220910_087.JPG: Nicholas Ivanovitch Vasilleff Portrait of Mrs. V, 1956
13. PRETTY_220910_092.JPG: Frances (Fannie) Susan Eanes Portrait of a Young Boy, c 1930s
14. PRETTY_220910_099.JPG: Edgar Nye Self Portrait, c 1930s-1943
15. PRETTY_220910_110.JPG: Charles Arthur Ray Dunn Caricature of Edgar Nye, 1929
16. PRETTY_220910_124.JPG: Eugene Edward Speicher Sara Rivers, 1924
17. PRETTY_220910_129.JPG: George Biddle Terae Hara, 1922
18. PRETTY_220910_134.JPG: Alfred Henry Maurer Girl with Red Hair, not dated
19. PRETTY_220910_140.JPG: Julian Alden Weir Miss de L., 1914
20. PRETTY_220910_147.JPG: Irving Ramsey Wiles The Artist's Mother and Father, 1889
21. PRETTY_220910_156.JPG: Frank Duveneck Dillard Hazelrigg Clark, 1877
22. PRETTY_220910_164.JPG: John Kendrick Fisher Portrait of a Child with a Spray of Flowers, c 1840s
23. PRETTY_220910_175.JPG: Unidentified Artist The Three Huidekoer Children, c 1853
24. PRETTY_220910_178.JPG: John Neagle George Rundle, 1850
25. PRETTY_220910_188.JPG: Thomas Sully Frances (Fanny) Rundle, 1828
26. PRETTY_220910_194.JPG: Manuel Joachim de Franca Portrait of a Woman, c 1835
27. PRETTY_220910_204.JPG: Unidentified artist An Officer of the United States Navy, c 1830
28. PRETTY_220910_212.JPG: Henry Inman Grace Anne O'Brien, c 1830
29. PRETTY_220910_219.JPG: John Trumbull Amelia Maria Phelps Wainwright, 1822
30. PRETTY_220910_225.JPG: Matthew Harris Jouett Isaac Thom, c 1820-1825
31. PRETTY_220910_232.JPG: James Frothingham John Pedrick III, c 1812
32. PRETTY_220910_236.JPG: James Frothingham Elizabeth Fettyplace Pedrick, c 1812
33. PRETTY_220910_244.JPG: Rembrandt Peale Charles-Philbert de Lasteyrie du Suillant, c 1810
34. PRETTY_220910_250.JPG: Unidentified Charles Carroll Glover, c 1810
35. PRETTY_220910_254.JPG: Charles Peale Polk Margaret Baker Briscoe, 1799
36. PRETTY_220910_264.JPG: Edward Savage John Hancock and Dorothy Quincy Hancock, 1775/1789
37. PRETTY_220910_271.JPG: Edward Greene Malbone Self-Portrait, c 1798
38. PRETTY_220910_277.JPG: Jeremiah Theus Gentleman of the Jones Family, 1750s
39. PRETTY_220910_284.JPG: John Hesselius Samuel Hanson, Jr. , 1765
40. PRETTY_220910_288.JPG: John Hesselius Anne (Nancy) Hawkins Hanson, 1765
41. PRETTY_220910_293.JPG: John Wollaston Colonel Abraham Barnes, 1753/54
42. PRETTY_220910_300.JPG: John Wollaston Elizabeth Penkethman Breese, c 1750
43. PRETTY_220910_307.JPG: Joseph Badger Grace Spear Foster, c 1764
44. PRETTY_220910_317.JPG: Constantino Brumidi Samuel F. B. Morse, c 1860/1875
45. PRETTY_220910_328.JPG: Samuel Lovett Waldo George Washington Parke Custis, c 1840s
46. PRETTY_220910_334.JPG: Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1882
47. PRETTY_220910_345.JPG: George Peter Alexander Healy Justin Smith Morrill ,1884
48. PRETTY_220910_352.JPG: George Peter Alexander Healy Emily Clarissa King Barlow Volk and her daughter, Honora, 1862
49. PRETTY_220910_358.JPG: George Peter Alexander Healy Mary Martin Anderson Clark, c 1873
50. PRETTY_220910_364.JPG: George Peter Alexander Healy John Quincy Adams, 1858
51. PRETTY_220910_370.JPG: George Peter Alexander Healy James Madison, 1848/1879
52. PRETTY_220910_380.JPG: George Peter Alexander Healy John Adams, 1860
53. PRETTY_220910_388.JPG: Unidentified Rebecca Chambers Russell, c 1720
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