Capitol Painting
When Senator John Kennedy's Committee announced that Robert M. La Follette, Sr. had been selected one of the five great Senators, Chester actively sought to win the commission for the portrait of the man he had shared so many meals with during his teen age years. His portrait was unveiled in the Senate Reception Room in 1959.
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Famous quotes containing the words capitol and/or painting:
“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)