History Quiz
What sitting president of the United States was extended an honorary membership in the Palette and Chisel Club?
posted by Cobalt Blue at 3:06 PM
Saturday, December 02, 2006
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4 Comments:
After reading his scathing criticism of the dreaded Armory Show -- I'm guessing that it was Teddy Roosevelt.
No. Two more guesses.
OK -- next guess -- William Howard Taft.
What other Presidential home was turned into a small, but world-class art museum ? (The Taft Museum in Cincinnati is a treasure for anyone who likes Turner, Constable, Corot, Goya, Daubigny -- but especially Turner)
On the other hand, though --- there's no Americans there except Sargent and Duveneck.
June 2, 1953: "A letter was mailed to Washington, D.C., with certificate making U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower an honorary member of the Palette & Chisel Academy." Eisenhower, supreme allied commander of the Second World War and two-term president, was also known as an amateur painter: http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/art.htm
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