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Diversity in White House Art
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Honoring the Birthday of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy
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Bio Michelle Obama
Michelle Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 17, 1964. Her father, Fraser, was a pump operator, and her mother, Marian,...
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Bio Harriet Lane
Unique among first ladies, Harriet Lane acted as hostess for the only president who never married: James Buchanan, her favorite...
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Bio Edith Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carow was born on August 6, 1861, in Manhattan, New York. She was the daughter of Charles Carow and Gertrude...
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Bio Jacqueline Kennedy
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, New York, to parents John and Janet Bouvier. She and her...
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Lincoln in the State Dining Room
For over 75 years, George Peter Alexander Healy’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln has remained an important aesthetic element for the Wh...
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Diversity in White House Art: Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence, one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated Black artists, is remembered for his vivid portrayals of the Bl...
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The Arts in the Kennedy White House
Historians of American music, art, and dance often explore their subjects through different topical categories such as genres, schools, and...
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President Eisenhower: The Painter
The only true response to art is to look with an eye like that of a child: unprejudiced, unbiased, clear,...
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The Art of John Singer Sargent in the White House
American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is the creator of two major paintings currently on display in the White House...
