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President Eisenhower at his easel at Camp David
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home/NARA
Winter Birches, oil, 1955.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home/NARA
Snow Capped Mountains, oil, c. 1955.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home/NARA
Untitled waterfall, oil on canvas, 1949. Inscribed on the canvas at the lower edge, “For my friend, Howard Young, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home/NARA
George Washington, oil, 1954. Eisenhower’s portrait of George Washington is based upon Gilbert Stuart's “Athenaeum” portrait of Washington painted in 1796, popularly known as the “unfinished” portrait. A copy of this picture hung in tens of thousands of American schoolrooms, perhaps Eisenhower's as well, when he was a boy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home/NARA
Eisenhower Family Home, Oil, mid-1950s, after a painting by Margaret Sandzen Greenough.
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Painting was not something President Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to be good at or, perhaps, thought he could be good at. Stephens sent him a complete painting kit, which Ike appreciated but thought a “sheer waste of money,” something the boy from a poor home could never accept comfortably. Maybe it was this innate frugality—the desire not to waste a gift—that spurred him to practice. Eisenhower was convinced that to become a painter, he lacked the one thing necessary, “ability."
Featuring Rev. Robert Fisher, Rector at St. John’s Church
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With the prize money he received from his naval feats, Decatur purchased the entire city block on the northwest corner of today’s Lafayette Square. The Decaturs commissioned Benjamin Henry Latrobe, one of America’s first professional architects, to design and buil
Featuring Iain Dale, award-winning British author and radio and podcast host
On July 11, 1798, Congress passed legislation that created the United States Marine Corps and the Marine Band, America's oldest professional musical organization. The United States Marine Band has been nicknamed "The President's Own" because of its historic connection to the president of the United States. At its origin, the fledgling band consisted of a Drum Major, a Fife Major and 32 drums
Featuring Alex Prud’homme, bestselling author and great-nephew of cooking legend Julia Child
Featuring Frederick J. Ryan, author of “Wine and the White House: A History" and member of the White House Historical Association’s National Council on White House History
