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More On Presidential Portraiture
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Nine Great Twentieth Century Examples
A Second Follow-Up To The Wall Street Journal
Woodrow Wilson, 1917
Sir William Orpen.
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Sir William Orpen, the dashing Irish
painter, was unmatched in the swiftness
and sureness of his touch. Working
impromptu at the peace conference
at Versailles which followed the end
of the First World War, Orpen recorded
the head and shoulders of President
Woodrow Wilson in a breathtakingly
real unfinished study. One of my own
portrait subjects, New York lawyer
John J. McCloy, while still a law
student, served as an aide to Wilson
at the conference, and was actually
in the room as the Orpen painting
was executed. McCloy recalls that
the sitting was concluded after ninety
minutes! The result is one of the
twentieth century's most vivid and
telling examples of portrait painting.
Click portrait to enlarge.
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