Word: willson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February he asked White House Curator Clem Conger for historical details about all the objects in the Oval Office, which include an 18th century portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a Frederic Remington bronze, Broncho Buster (circa 1901), and the only known replica of Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington, which is currently valued at $400,-000 to $600,000. Carter recently stunned the curator of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art with his detailed knowledge of American artists. Thanks to a speed-reading course that he and his family just completed, the President...
Among those who remain in the embattled Colonies, the master of portrait painting is undoubtedly Charles Willson Peale. If Peale lacks something of Copley's consummate dexterity at catching a character in mid-gesture, he nevertheless seems more unpretentiously honest; perhaps, it might be said, more distinctively American. Unlike West and his London friends, who often seem to paint at the kneel before their distinguished subjects, Peale has always looked at his sitters...
...presence of other men pervades the place. Benjamin Franklin, looking like a benevolent old owl, watches from one wall. He was painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1785 when he came home after almost ten years in France. Peale also did the oil of George Washington that is over the mantel...
Michael F. Wynne-Willson Westwood, Mass...
...outdone, the St. Mary Magdalene experimenters took the short bus trip to Richmond Bridge and tossed eggs into the Thames. Nearly three-fourths broke on impact. "We now know," concluded Science Master Willson, "that water is harder than grass and less hard than concrete...