Posted on 06/30/2026 2:19:19 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
She called me just prior to the inauguration," remembers Leroy Davis, a New York art dealer who served on Mrs. Kennedy's Fine Arts Committee for the White House. "She had heard about a Maurice Prendergast show at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and though she didn't know much about him, she was intrigued. So I talked to her for quite a while and encouraged her to see the work. And when the show went to the Whitney in New York, I took her to see it."
Several months later, in 1961, during the Kennedys' triumphant state visit to Paris, their gift to President Charles de Gaulle was a Prendergast watercolor of a Paris scene, Boulevard des Capucins. It seemed to be a subtle way of saying that the art of America was equal to that of France.
Of course, Jacqueline Kennedy's greatest artistic contribution was her restoration of the White House. She took the Executive Mansion from a drab, hotel-like institution ("Early Statler," as she mordantly put it), virtually devoid of historical furnishings and paintings other than presidential portraits, and transformed it into one of the foremost collections of American decorative and fine arts. Although she made the White House into a museum, it was also very much a home—welcoming, unpretentious, and livable.
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We have a couple of islands where the old folks still retain a lot of the English speech their ancestors first brought here.
They are fast disappearing, due to death of the old folks, relocation of young people, and the influence of mass media:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Tider
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E&pp=ygUcdGhlIG9kZCBhY2NlbnQgb2YgdGFuZ2llciB2YQ%3D%3D
I remember those years. Jackie did well with her decorating.
Then LBJ and Ladybird decided to “Beautify America” by placing fences around junk yards and doing Urban Renewal on decaying parts of cities.
I didn’t mean she supported it
Women until recently weren’t associated by default as majority liberal like now
Tangier Island was famous for it. I hope it doesn’t vanish.
Tangier itself is disappearing as we speak...
Beautiful dress.
Helen "Nelly" Taft initiated the planting of Cherry Blossoms around D.C.
Grace and Calvin Coolidge owned collies during their time in the White House. Today (July 4) was President Coolidge's birthday.
Wonderful pictures of history. Especially love the collie, which looks so different from collies of today.
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