Word: rancheria
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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While the painter had clear ideas about his subject's countenance, the President already had his own judgment of the artist's work. There are two of Peter Kurd's paintings in the White House. One, called Rancheria, on loan from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, hangs opposite the President's bed-where it is "the first thing I see in the morning." President Johnson likes to think of it as a view of his own west-central Texas hill country, although it is a scene from Kurd's New Mexico...
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