The beauty and splendor of the American landscape has been toiled over and captured grandly by many artists, with names like Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand, Winslow Homer, Rockwell Kent, Thomas Moran, Georgia O'Keefe, and Andrew Wyeth. The White House art collection includes spectacular renditions of our nation's geographic diversity.
Bierstadt's large compositions were exhibited in Europe, romanticizing the unblemished wilderness, grasping the viewers attention to the wonder of the United States. A few first ladies played a role in the acquisition of some of the latter works including Hillary Clinton's championing O'Keefe and Laura Bush insisting on the purchase of a work by Wyeth months before the artist's death. The White House curator noted the coup by Mrs. Bush of the unprecedented acquisition of a work by a living artist. He said they would have never been able to afford to purchase it after the price of the artist's works skyrocketed following his death.
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| Surf at Prout's Neck (1895) | Winslow Homer |
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| Asgaard Cornfield (Corn and Oats, Gray Day) (1945 - 1950) | Rockwell Kent |
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| Mountain at Bear Lake - Taos (1930) | Georgia O'Keeffe |
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| Mrs. Charlie Stone (1945) | Andrew Wyeth |
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