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The White House's Art collection was established by an Act of Congress in 1961 and grew extensively during the Kennedy Administration. [5] It now includes more than 65,000 objects if individual items are catalogued. [6]
During the Kennedy White House restoration, interior designer Stéphane Boudin proposed painting the room in a style used in 17th and 18th century England and Normandy. Boudin had used a similar treatment in the Blue Bedroom at Leeds Castle in Kent, England. Rather than attempting to putty and polish the rough-sawn timbers, he highlighted the ...
Official White House portrait of Theodore Roosevelt: 1903: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 147.6 cm × 101.6 cm 58 + 1 ⁄ 8 in × 40 in: White House Art Collection, Washington, D.C. Marionettes: 1903: Portrait: Oil on canvas: 73.7 cm × 53 cm 29 in × 20 + 7 ⁄ 8 in: Private collection Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland: 1904: Portrait ...
The American interior designer Sister Parish established the basic design of the room by painting the walls a soft yellow, joined by a pale yellow oval carpet topped by Oriental rugs. The French interior designer Stéphane Boudin built upon Parish's contributions, replacing the Truman era hotel style furniture with late 18th and early 19th ...
Hoover, however, later commissioned a second portrait that was completed in 1956 by Elmer Wesley Greene. At Hoover's request, this painting replaced the original, and currently stands as the official White House portrait. [12] The Johansen painting now resides at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa. [13]
A marble bust of George Washington by sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi (1751–1801) receives conservation work in the China Room.. The White House Office of the Curator is charged with the conservation and study of the collection of fine art, furniture, and decorative objects used to furnish both the public and private rooms of the White House as an official residence and as an accredited historic ...
The first room in the White House to carry the name "Lincoln Bedroom" was in the northwest corner of the White House. It existed from 1929 (at which time it was changed from the Prince of Wales Bedroom) until 1961, when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy transformed it into the President's Dining Room .
Barbara Bush in the White House China Room, 1991. Millie, Barbara Bush's dog in the China Room. The China Room is one of the rooms on the Ground Floor of the White House, the home of the president of the United States. The White House's collection of state china is displayed there.