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Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth
On a side note, the Sherr portrait of Bush Senior is hanging on the next wall and when I saw it it had spittle on the face! Someone, just a few minutes before me, had come and spat on the portrait. That was a shock to see!
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Michele, If Bush #41 wears spittle, and Clinton is maligned it seems, in his portrait, then given these times, what might we expect with Bush '43's turn at being immortalized? Are there any meaningful portraits of him yet?
Last Fall, while touring the retropective Nelson Shanks exhibition "Mastery and Meaning" at the Union League in Philadelphia (a decidedly conservative Republican club and bastion of portraiture of every Republican president up to Bush #41), the docent and I segwayed into a conversation about these portraits. I mentioned how nice it was to have the iconic image of Reagan by Shanks, and those two fine Kinstlers of Ford and Bush #41. The docent beamed with pride.... She was aware my newly unveiled League President portrait was hanging beside Lincoln's in the next room.
Continuing, I had the nerve to inquire who might be painting Bush #43 for this consecrated and prime collection? The docent turned a pale white with an aghast look on her face and uttered in her most horrified response tone "OH PLEASE DON'T GO THERE!" I caught her drift.
By the way, there is one Democrat in their collection: President Andrew Jackson.
Garth