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The Painter's Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art
by
Hugh Howard
An eloquent new look at the beginnings of the American republic—through the portraits of its first icon, George Washington, and the painters who defined him.
“I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck…no dray moves more readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters Chair.”—George Washington, May 16, 1785
When George W...more
“I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck…no dray moves more readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters Chair.”—George Washington, May 16, 1785
When George W...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
February 3rd 2009
by Bloomsbury Press
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In present day when the way a public figure looks is everything, it’s hard to imagine a time when almost no one in the country knew what the president looked like. However, even before the advent of the photograph, everyone knew what George Washington looked like. Washington knew that symbols mattered and that he was a symbol and so he begruddgingly sat for portraits by Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, Edward Savage, John Trumbull and others. The Painter’s Chair by Hugh Howard tells the st...more
Interesting volume on how George Washington was not just first in the hearts of his countrymen, but also of his country's early artists, whose portraits of him both drew attention to their skill. This also allowed many of them to make a living at art in a small, sparsely populated new nation on the eastern edge of the North American continent.
howard lists facts but provides no historical insight or significant argument.
A very interesting look at a part of America's history that we never think about.
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