Pop Goes the Artist!

Friday afternoon I went downtown to visit the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, two museums conveniently housed in the same building. My intention was to find a nice portrait bust and sketch it, but that didn’t pan out. There were a lot of nice portrait busts, but none of them was located anywhere near a bench. So I took photos instead. Some of the nicer ones are below the fold.

“Libyan Sibyl” by William Wetmore Story, 1860 (SAAM)

“Undine” by Chauncey Bradley Ives, 1884 (SAAM).  Both this and “The Libyan Sibyl” were in a gallery with a number of other statues of women, ranging from Eve to goddesses to virtues personified.  Eight or ten lovely ladies…and St. John the Evangelist.  Oops!

“The Dying Tecumseh” by Ferdinand Pettrich, 1856 (NPG)

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