Sunday, July 2, 2006

Museum presidents

The National Portrait Gallery has an official collection of the portraits of every president. The presidential gallery is artfully displayed with not only the official portrait, but other paintings, photographs, and even newsreels. A couple of them I found interesting,

This is Norman Rockwell's portrait of Richard Nixon, and one of the best paintings in the gallery.

Nixon


Here is one of the alternative portraits of Abraham Lincoln, but I think I actually like this one better than the standard one everybody sees all the time.

Lincoln portrait


Lincoln is also the subject of two historic photographs. The first of these photographs was taken by the renowned photographer Matthew Brady and was often seen in Lincoln's presidential campaign. The second photograph was taken after the Civil War and shortly before Lincoln's death.

Lincoln campaign photoLincoln photograph

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