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Artists for Harper's Weekly converted Brady's photograph to a full-page woodcut portrait to illustrate their story of Lincoln's triumph, and in October 1860, Leslie's Weekly used the same image to illustrate a story about the election. Brady himself sold many carte-de-visite photographs of the Illinois politician who had captured the eye of the ...
This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Lincoln’s character was notoriously difficult to capture in pictures, but Alexander Gardner’s close-up portrait, quite innovative in contrast to the typical full-length portrait style, comes closest to preserving the expressive contours of Lincoln’s face and his penetrating gaze. Photograph taken by Alexander Gardner, 1863.
And although the letter was worth an insane amount of money, $50-$75,000 to be exact, the woman appeared to go into shock, because she didn't have much of a reaction. Awkward.
The official White House portrait of Barack Obama was unveiled on September 7, 2022. It was painted by Robert McCurdy, who focused on working off of a photograph of the former president. In the photorealistic portrait, Obama is dressed in a black suit with a gray tie, and painted against a minimal white backdrop, a signature of McCurdy's artworks.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is selling the Bedford, N.Y., property where his estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, committed suicide in May. The 10-acre property and its gorgeous 10,000-square-foot ...
A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century has sold for $32 million – the bottom end of its pre-auction estimate.. The “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser,” thought to be one ...
Elizabeth Shoumatoff, née Avinoff, (October 6, 1888 – November 30, 1980) was a portrait painter who painted the Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.Other paintings of White House residents include portraits of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. [2]