As I said in the previous post, the Portrait Gallery has an exhibit of US Presidents' portraits that are not the official portraits. It's interesting to see what these men looked like. It's also interesting to read about what they accomplished in office; not much for most of them according to a book my husband recently read.
It's unlikely you'll be able to name these guys so I'll label them for you. There will be some to guess from the 20th century.
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
This one is recognizable I'm sure: 16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester Arthur
22. & 24. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt.
Do you recognize the rest of these?
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27. Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Roosevelt
33. Harry Truman
34. Dwight Eisenhower
35. John Kennedy
36. Lyndon Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford
...I wonder what Donny portrait will look like.
ReplyDeleteAs a Canadian, I am proud that I recognized quite a few of them.
ReplyDeleteFunny Polk and his wife were in the news last week as we drove through Tennessee.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/28/tenn-senate-okays-moving-james-polks-body-but-the-battle-over-the-11th-presidents-grave-isnt-over/?utm_term=.c7c30bee5ee6
what great portraits...i'm especially interested in the old, old ones...i can look at those faces and eyes for a long time!
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