Collection The Kennedys and the Arts
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the arts endures as a vital part of th...
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the arts endures as a vital part of th...
On March 27, 1952, President and Mrs. Truman returned to a freshly renovated White House after living at Blair House since November 1948....
“It is of very great importance to fix the taste of our Country properly, and I think your Example will go...
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s advocacy for the performing arts endures as a vital part of...
Historians of American music, art, and dance often explore their subjects through different topical categories such as genres, schools, and...
For over 75 years, George Peter Alexander Healy’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln has remained an important aesthetic element for the Wh...
After the destruction of the White House by the British in 1814, the Executive Mansion was reconstructed with a servants’ hall di...
The first known image of the White House was a daguerreotype taken in 1846, during the administration of President James K....
Inside the Decatur House’s California Room hangs a series of remarkable nineteenth-century Japanese silk panels that depict the changing se...
Every administration brings their own personality to the White House, particularly when it comes to the look and feel of...
Inside the Decatur House’s California Room hangs a series of remarkable nineteenth-century Japanese silk panels that depict the changing se...