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Presidents will often display the official portraits of former presidents whom they admire in the Oval Office or elsewhere around the White House, loaned from the National Portrait Gallery. The gallery has collected presidential portraits since its creation in 1962, and began commissioning their portraits in 1994, starting with George H. W ...
The idea of a federally owned national portrait gallery can be traced back to 1886, when Robert C. Winthrope, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, visited the National Portrait Gallery in London. Upon his return to the United States, Winthrope began pressing for the establishment of a similar museum in the United States.
Washington, D.C. Theodore Roosevelt Island. 1967 Paul Manship: Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider: Portland, Oregon. South Park Blocks. 1922 Alexander Phimister Proctor: Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt: New York City, New York. American Museum of Natural History. 1939 James Earle Fraser: Theodore Roosevelt Bust Washington, D.C. United ...
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]
In honor of President's Day, we've rounded up the best photos of former US presidents enjoying each other's company. See Also: 11 US cities where people are the least healthy, have the most ...
The United States Senate Vice Presidential Bust Collection is a series of 46 busts in the United States Capitol, each one bearing the likenesses of a vice president of the United States. Each sculpture, from John Adams to Dick Cheney, honors the role of the vice president as both a member of the executive branch and as president of the Senate.
Statues of presidents of the United States (13 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Sculptures of presidents of the United States" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Abraham Lincoln (1920) is a colossal seated figure of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Located in the Lincoln Memorial, constructed between 1914 and 1922 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the statue was unveiled ...