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National Geographic : 1951 Feb
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American Processional: History on Canvas National Ueographic Photographer Willard 1R. Culver School Children Learn History the Vivid Way by Touring American Processional Boys and girls stood popeyed before a realistic painting of a sea captains' carousal, but interest visibly wandered from "William Penn's Treaty with the Indians" (page 182). The Corcoran's Charles E. Buckley, who serves as their guide, thinks they sensed a fictitious quality about the picture, which Benjamin West created from imagination in London (page 175). Civil War memories still seemed fresh, Mr. Buckley noted. "I recall my father's telling me about this," more than one visitor told him upon seeing a painting of that era. ing). As a division commander temporarily but efficiently leading a corps, he felt he had earned promotion, but he was overlooked. David G. Blythe, the artist, accompanied the 13th Pennsylvania Regiment, sketching its activities. His painting, appropriately, was lent by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York. It was in Cooperstown, as a ball-playing schoolboy, that Doubleday earned credit for laying out the diamond, assigning the playing positions, and naming the game. One of the major pictures to come out of the Civil War was "The Peacemakers" (page 202). Americans are indebted to its creator, Boston-born, self-taught George Peter Alex ander Healy, for his lifelike gallery of great men and ladies on both sides of the Atlantic. Kings and Presidents Sat for Healy King Louis Philippe of France, King Charles of Romania, and Prince Otto von Bismarck of Germany posed for Healy. So did Jenny Lind, Henry W. Longfellow, and Franz Liszt. The artist portrayed Charles Goodyear on the inventor's own creation, rubber. From life, Healy painted portraits of eleven American Presidents, nine of which hang in the Corcoran Gallery. 179
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