Artist
Augustus Vincent Tack, 9 Nov 1870 – 22 Jul 1949
Sitter
Chester William Nimitz, 24 Feb 1885 – 20 Feb 1966
James Vincent Forrestal, 15 Feb 1892 – 22 May 1949
Provenance
The artist; his wife; The Phillips Collection, Washington by 1959; purchased 1995 NPG
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution1947-49
Artist
Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, born near Hudson, NY ca. 1834-died Taormina, Italy 1869
Gallery Label
The landscape where this herdsman sleeps recalls a distant time and place. Thomas Hotchkiss heightened the mystery of this ancient site by including a mosaic of a winged boy on a dolphin from a recently excavated Roman bath as well as a skull and bones in the shadows at the far left. The Torre di Schiavi, or Tower of Slaves, was a popular subject for American artists visiting Italy. The site was associated with an uprising of Roman slaves, an event that would have been particularly meaningful for Americans in 1865, when the Civil War ended and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. Exhibition Label: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Artist
C. Morgan McIlhenney, born Philadelphia, PA 1858-died 1904
Luce Center Label
This painting shows a monument on Philae Island in Egypt known as Trajan’s Kiosk, or Pharaoh’s Bed, which was built for the Roman emperor Trajan. During the nineteenth century, magazines such as Harper’s New Monthly often published engravings of foreign monuments and landscapes with articles on travel. Charles McIlhenney, like many other artists, may have painted ideal landscapes of distant countries based on these illustrations.
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. William Henry Holmes
Artist
Augustus Vincent Tack, 9 Nov 1870 – 22 Jul 1949
Sitter
Dwight David Eisenhower, 14 Oct 1890 – 28 Mar 1969
Henry Lewis Stimson, 21 Sep 1867 – 20 Oct 1950
Douglas MacArthur, 26 Jan 1880 – 5 Apr 1964
Provenance
The artist; his wife; The Phillips Collection, Washington by 1959; purchased 1995 NPG
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
1947-49
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