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Hawk 'n' Dove 329 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...perks of White House living is getting to see current movies in the comfort of your own stately mansion. Which brings up the question, What will the new First Family select for its first screening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Steven Soderbergh's five-hour epic Che? Doubtful. My money is on Hotel for Dogs, a resolutely chirpy, exceedingly safe family film aimed squarely and shamelessly at Malia and Sasha Obama's puppy-loving demographic. (See pictures of presidential First Dogs...
...outdoors painter," he says, and he spends most of his days outside. When he comes home, it is to a 200-year-old fieldstone house, newly remodeled so meticulously in Pennsylvania colonial style that when he first saw it all reconditioned he cracked: "Where do I register?" He has a handsome brunette wife named Betsy, and a pair of youthful, energetic sons...
...with the scholarly illustrator Howard Pyle. Often Pyle and his favorite pupil would journey the twelve miles out of Wilmington to Chadds Ford to paint along the banks of the Brandywine near the old gristmill. Within three years, N.C. had married, and soon after put down roots in the Pennsylvania hills...
...Others that have temperas: Milwaukee Art Center; Wilmington (Del.) Society of the Fine Arts; Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass.; Toledo Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Me.; Shelburne (Vt.) Museum; New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art; Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn.; and Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. * Drybrush, used by Wyeth's mentor of the miniature, Albrecht Dürer, as early as 1450, is more like drawing than watercoloring in technique. The artist works...