Mark Pachter: Neilly Series Lecture
Title
Mark Pachter: Neilly Series Lecture
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Date
2004-03-24
Description
Mark Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, will discuss "The Making of an American Icon: George Washington and Gilbert Stuart." There is only one American visual document that might be said to rank in importance with the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights. That is Gilbert Stuart's full-length portrait of George Washington painted during Washington's last year in office. It provided the new nation with a summary of what we would come to expect of the invented office of the Presidency. Pachter will discuss how the President and the portraitist came together, why it spent most of its existence in Great Britain, and how a major national campaign in 2001 saved it for the nation. Introduction by Grant Holcomb.
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image/jpeg
Event Type
lecture
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Citation
Pachter, Mark, “Mark Pachter: Neilly Series Lecture,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed April 20, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/4824.