Word: stuart
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...GILBERT STUART once said, in a wry comment on the grand work of his mentor, Benjamin West, that ";no one would paint history who could do a portrait." Stuart went on from there to produce a great and unique visual record of American history expressed in portraits. This week's cover of President James Monroe is part of that record.* President Monroe sat for Stuart in Boston early in July 1817, four months after he had taken office in his first term, and while he was on a trip inspecting military installations. The Essex Register of Salem, Mass...
This oil was one of a set of the first Presidents done by Stuart on commission from a Boston picture dealer. The set was in storage in the Library of Congress when in 1851, a fire destroyed all except the Monroe portrait and that of President James Madison. Eventually, the Monroe oil came into the possession of Seth Low, president of Manhattan's Columbia University (1890-1901) and second mayor of New York City (1902-04), who bequeathed it to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum took possession of the painting in 1929, in what...
...Painter Stuart, who always stubbornly insisted on putting to canvas exactly what he saw, also left behind a stern point of view that can serve journalists as well as painters. To a proud husband who complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist replied: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...
...although not, like McCormack, for aid to parochial schools), job retraining and financial assistance to Massachusetts' fishing industry. He did not, therefore, think it "appropriate" that he should "also advocate at this time a tax cut." McCormack, obviously trying to woo the ban-the-bomb supporters of Independent Stuart Hughes (see following story), stated: "We should stop production of nuclear weapons. We have sufficient over kill now." Kennedy won applause, even from the pro-McCormack audience, by saying: "I don't think in 1962 we can afford any kind of stepping-back from our strong position of military...
When an egghead runs for political office, his backers ordinarily try to build up his image as a regular guy. If, for example, he once went to a baseball game, he now gets billed as a devoted fan. But H. Stuart Hughes, running as an independent for Senator from Massachusetts, departs from this pattern. A Harvard history professor and the author of several scholarly works, Hughes is an egghead who makes no concessions to popular political behavior...