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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]
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 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.
In 1917, First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson acknowledged the need for more space for displaying the collection through the suggestions of both Mrs. Baker and White House Chief-Usher Irwin Hood "Ike"Hoover (1871–1933). Baker had continued to research the history of the mansion—particularly that of its celebrated tableware—and argued that the ...
The Vermeil Room (/ ˈ v ɜːr m əl / VUR-məl; French: [vɛʁˈmɛj]) is located on the ground floor of the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States. The room houses a collection of silver-gilt or vermeil tableware, a 1956 bequest to the White House by
That six-hour period of time on Inauguration Day is chronicled in a chapter of designer Michael S. Smith's book Designing History: The Extraordinary Art & Style of the Obama White House (Rizzoli ...
A painting of President Andrew Jackson provided by the White House art collection features prominently in Trump's Oval Office, according to WSJ. Trump has long admired the nation's seventh ...
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.