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The painting was donated to the White House art collection by C. R. Smith, president of American Airlines. It is the earliest of three landscape paintings by Moran in the White House art collection, the other two being his 1912 painting of Point Lobos , Monterey and a 1909-1910 painting of the cliffs of the Green River, Wyoming .
Thomas Moran standing on a balcony, smoking a cigar, 1912. Moran was born in Bolton, Lancashire, in England, to Mary (née Higson) and Thomas Moran Sr., one of seven children. His father belonged to a family of handloom weavers. He wanted a better future to his family, so they moved to the United States in 1844, when young Thomas was 7 years old.
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]
The White House: The Historic Furnishing & First Families. Abbeville Press: 2000. ISBN 0-7892-0624-2. Seale, William. The President's House. White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 1986. ISBN 0-912308-28-1. Seale, William, The White House: The History of an American Idea. White House Historical Association: 1992 ...
The event was watched by an estimated 70 million television viewers, and florists nationwide reported a surge in requests for “White House-style” wedding arrangements in the months that followed.
Mary Todd Lincoln discovered that the White House china – which had been purchased in the administration of Franklin Pierce in the early 1850s – was in a sorry state. There were only enough plates, cups, saucers, and serving dishes to serve about 10 guests, [1] and what china remained was mismatched and damaged.
Though the King Seeley "Yellow Submarine" lunchbox from 1968, is worth up to $1,300, an original Smokey Bear lunchbox from the early 1970s can go for over $700 on eBay. The most valuable ...
Ex collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art [1]: 352 A North Woods Brook [280] Oil on canvas Ex collection: Thomas B. Clarke Sunset in the Woods [281] Oil on canvas Clearing Off at Sunset [282] Oil on canvas 1891-92 San Diego Museum of Art An October Day [283] Oil on canvas ca.1888 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Sunset [284]