![]() Church, “Rutland Falls, Vermont” (1848)/White House CollectionĬharles Willson Peale, “Benjamin Henry Latrobe” (c. Unknown artist after William Henry Bartlett, “The President’s House” (c.1836-37)/White House Collectionįireplace image: White House Historical Associationĭesk image: Dirck Halstead/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Imagesįrederic E. Thomas Sully, “Andrew Jackson” (c.1824)/National Gallery of Art Thomas Moran, “The Three Tetons” (c.1895)/White House Collection Julian Onderdonk, “Cactus Flowers” (no date)/Witte Museumįireplace image: George W. Julian Onderdonk, “Chili Queens at the Alamo” (no date)/Witte Museum Julian Onderdonk, “Near San Antonio” (no date)/San Antonio Museum of Art Tom Lea, “Rio Grande” (1954)/El Paso Museum of Art William Henry David Koerner, “A Charge to Keep” (1929) Norman Rockwell, “Working on the Statue of Liberty”/Copyright SEPS, via Curtis Licensingįireplace image: Doug Mills/The New York Timesĭesk image: White House Historical Association Hopper and Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Whitney Museum of American Art Hopper and Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Whitney Museum of American ArtĮdward Hopper, “Cobb’s Barns, South Truro” (1930-33)/Heirs of Josephine N. George Henry Story, “Abraham Lincoln” (c.1915)/White House Collectionįireplace image: Erin Schaff/The New York TimesĮdward Hopper, “Burly Cobb’s House, South Truro” (1930-33)/Heirs of Josephine N. Rembrandt Peale, “George Washington” (c.1823)/White House Collection Rembrandt Peale, “Thomas Jefferson” (1800)/White House Collection Healy, “Thomas Jefferson” (c.1842-1860)/National Gallery of ArtĪndrew Melrose, “New York Harbor and the Battery” (c.1887)/White House Collection ![]() Earl, “Andrew Jackson” (c.1835)/White House Collection Durand, “Andrew Jackson” (1835)/United States Naval Academy Museum Joseph Siffred Duplessis, “Benjamin Franklin” (c. Unknown artist, “Daniel Webster” (mid-19th century)/White House Collectionįireplace image: Alex Brandon/Associated Pressĭesk image: Doug Mills/The New York Times John Trumbull, “Alexander Hamilton” (c.1805)/White House Collection Suarez, “Caesar Chavez” (1996)/Cesar Chavez Foundation ![]() Salisbury, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt” (1947)/White House Collection George Henry Story, “Abraham Lincoln” (c. 1842-1860)/National Gallery of ArtĪllan Houser, “Swift Messenger” (1990)/National Museum of the American IndianĬharles Keck, “Harry Truman” (1947)/White House CollectionĪrtis Lane, “Rosa Parks” (1990)/National Portrait GalleryĪugustus Saint-Gaudens, “Abraham Lincoln” (c. George Cooke, “City of Washington From Beyond the Navy Yard” (1833)/White House CollectionĬhilde Hassam, “The Avenue in the Rain” (1917)/White House Collection Kennedy” (1968)/National Portrait Gallery ![]() And so to catalog and take a look around the virtual attic of the Oval Office through the years tells you a lot about what presidents value - not only the stories they are interested in, but the stories they are writing themselves.”Ĭharles Alston, “Martin Luther King, Jr.” (1970)/National Portrait GalleryĪnonymous artist after Jean-Baptiste Greuze, “Benjamin Franklin” (19th century)/National Gallery of ArtĪnonymous artist after Victor Lamkay, “Eleanor Roosevelt” (c. “Presidents have a unique place, not only as an object of the historical imagination, but as an architect of it. “The Oval Office decoration often reflects a president’s view of history and the nature of his hopes for the future,” said Jon Meacham, the presidential biographer whom Biden asked to advise on art for the Oval Office. ![]() Indeed, the paintings and the sculptures that are displayed in the Oval Office represent the choices of each American president - subtle and not so subtle signals every administration sends about its values and view of history.Īnd so although the Oval Office is perhaps not often thought of as an ultra-high-profile rotating exhibition space, in one narrow sense, that is exactly what it is. What if the paintings and sculptures could talk? What if they already do? ![]()
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