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In 1793, President George Washington selected physician, painter, and architect Dr. William Thornton’s design for the U.S. Capitol building. National Portrait Gallery curator emerita Ellen M…

In 1793, President George Washington selected physician, painter and architect Dr. William Thornton’s design for the U.S. Capitol building. In this concluding session of a Thornton symposium…

Hugh Howard talked about The Painter’s Chair: George Washington and the Making of American Art. In the book he profiles America’s early portrait artists Charles Wilson Peale, Gilbert Stuart…

Ms. Sanger discussed her biography of her great-grandfather, Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait, published by Abbeville Press. The book details Frick’s life and rise to power as an indus…

The Washington Journal program looked at American Presidents. Telephone lines were opened for audience comment on American presidents.