Posted on 12/08/2004 3:42:04 PM PST by dennisw
George Bush viewing paintings of the Four Indian Kings at Canada's National Archives.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/008840.php
How interesting. I'd like to see all four paintings, myself.
Laura Bush looks like a million bucks. What a first class First Lady.
Wow! She's even wearing gloves. I hope that means gloves are back in style for women!
Actually it just means she didn't want to get any of those creepy liberal Canadian germs on her when shaking hands. : )
Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride 
Preface to the Collection
— by Former Curator, Rex Scouten
Art for the President's House —
An Historical Perspective
— by Doreen Bolger & David Park Curry
Selected Works from the Collection
— by William Kloss
Absolutely fabulous. I love gloves!
Great photo. George Bush must respect these Indians by the way he's looking so intently. It's as if he's trying to learn from them.
I can tell you for a fact that that very Hassan painting is hanging outside the door to the Oval Office on the left wall as you go into the Oval Office; I've seen it myself; and when you're standing there oohing and ahhing about it, the Secret Service will whisper to you that yes, that IS the painting that the Clintons "took" with them when they left the White House -- and Al Gonzalez had to take legal action to get it back!!!
I love that picture. It's my favorite one in the White House; the bottom floor center hall of the White House is filled with native Indian artwork.
LOL.......(I just don't want you to think nobody "got it.")
The gloves are for when touching old docs. the archive.
Besides loving the beauty of that Hassan painting, I PARTICULARLY like the irony of where it hangs!,
Folks who appreciate good art, and who know and admire Larry "Lawrence of America" Kudlow, might want to view his wife's work, at:
http://www.andersonfineartgallery.com/artwork/kudlow.htm
We sell mostly the "Twilight on The Commons" by Childe Hassan. Bostonians love that one.
I have that print you posted in my inventory at the store.
I know it's not relevent but I stopped at the artistry of Hassan and I had to comment.
Arioch7 out!
Anyone know where to buy a painting Winston Churchill did? He wasn't very good, but I'd love to own a small piece of this world that the British Lion created just for the small connection.
Oh yeah? :)
I admit that the appreciation and definition of ‘art’ are extraordinarily subjective areas, and artistic tastes run the gamut. Beauty is indeed in the eyes of beholder.
But, with that said …
I always spend a lot of time choosing the Christmas card that I send to our friends and relatives, wanting both the front design and the inscription to be just right. Another subjective thing – I’m sure that, to other people, that choice isn’t quite as important.
Thus the reason I was taken aback by the President’s choice of this year’s White House Christmas card (we received ours a couple of days ago).
The back identifies the cover design as ‘The Red Room, the White House, Cindi Holt, oil on canvas’.
With all of the incredibly beautiful paintings that have been rendered over the centuries of the first Christmas, and more modern (yet still somehow evocative of Christmas warmth) renderings of more secularized Christmas images (candles, holly, fireplaces, wreaths, warm depictions of homes with Christmas lights in the windows, beautiful snow scenes, etc.), somehow Ms. Holt’s attempt to portray the meaning of Christmas falls short … to the eye of this particular artistic amateur. :)
Mr. President, I was overjoyed at your recent victory over your unworthy opponent. But, had I been required to vote for you based on artistic preferences, I might have been forced to sit this election out. :)
Fa la la la la …
~ joanie
I love the city scenes, especially of carriages and rainy streets.
But would the Clinton's get the joke if I told them that they could have my Hassam?!
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