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Norman Rockwell paintings removed from White House, replaced with Biden photos (not Bee)
Yahoo News ^
| 07/07/2022
| Haley Chi-Sing
Posted on 07/07/2022 1:15:57 PM PDT by 4Liberty
Four Norman Rockwell works featured in the White House have been taken down and replaced with photos of President Joe Biden, according to Politico.
Politico first reported the paintings were taken down on Tuesday, writing two individuals familiar with the matter said members of the Rockwell family had requested the art be returned to them. Their request was granted last year. A person familiar with the matter said the paintings had been replaced with "several jumbo photos of Biden."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americana; art; biden; fjb; normanrockwell; whitehouse
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To: 4Liberty
Don’t ever compare Trump with Biden. It elevates the latter to a level he is unfamiliar with. It degrades Trump to a level he never deserved.
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posted on
07/07/2022 2:58:05 PM PDT
by
353FMG
To: mware
...or the beginning of the Biden administration. Maybe. It says the request was approved about a year ago. I find it a little hard to believe that a group like Biden's could get it from request to approval in less than six months.
To: 4Liberty
Communists Issue Another Whiteness Penalty
To: MortMan
If the Rockwell family requested the paintings be returned, then that was a correct decision. However, putting up POTATUS pics in their place is just tacky, tasteless decorating.It also shows how tone-deaf Biden is.
It's 2022. Everyone knows the White House walls are to be adorned with the artwork of marginalized BIPOC trannies.
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posted on
07/07/2022 3:14:14 PM PDT
by
Drew68
(Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
To: 4Liberty
Those illustrations are large drawings that hung in the West Wing hallway near the communications office. They depict people waiting to see the president; and reporters rushing to a row of phone booths to call in a story. Rockwell had once visited FDR, and made the drawings from his impressions.
The story I heard when I toured there was that some staff member took the rolled-up drawings home in the 50s, and they stayed in his attic for a number of years, but were given to the WH after he died. But that doesn't add up to the Rockwell family requesting them back. Who knows who's the true owner?
Pictures HERE.
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posted on
07/07/2022 3:44:15 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
To: 4Liberty
members of the Rockwell family had requested the art be returned to them. Is that because the paintings were taken down, or is that why they were taken down?
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posted on
07/07/2022 4:00:26 PM PDT
by
MileHi
((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: MileHi
My understanding is the family initiated the request to have the paintings returned.
But - I bet they were concerned about 'woke' visitors to Biden's WH vandalizing them... just a guess.
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posted on
07/07/2022 4:15:23 PM PDT
by
4Liberty
(Remember when government paved the Roads and trained the Army – instead of lying and oppressing?)
To: 4Liberty
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posted on
07/07/2022 4:48:01 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
To: 4Liberty
Right. Some Rockwell paintings were just on loan. One donated by Steven Spielberg to the White House is apparently still on display.
There’s also the Norman Rockwell Museum which has loaned artwork.
Rockwell art can go for millions. Not surprising that some longtime owners might want to cash in, especially since America’s elites now hate Rockwell’s America.
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posted on
07/07/2022 4:50:09 PM PDT
by
jjotto
( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: 4Liberty
But - I bet they were concerned about 'woke' visitors to Biden's WH vandalizing them... just a guess. Good guess.
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posted on
07/07/2022 7:26:51 PM PDT
by
MileHi
((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: 4Liberty
Hey just like North Korea. 😅
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posted on
07/08/2022 9:02:36 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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