@article{453850,
      author = {Howard, Hugh,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453850},
      title = {The painter's chair : George Washington and the making of  American art /},
      publisher = {Bloomsbury Press,},
      abstract = {From the Publisher: An eloquent new look at the beginnings  of the American republic-through the portraits of its first  icon, George Washington, and the painters who defined him.  "I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil,  that I am now altogether at their beck-no dray moves more  readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters  Chair."--George Washington, May 16, 1785. When George  Washington was born, the New World had virtually no  artists. Over the course of his life and career, a cultural  transformation would occur. Virtually everyone regarded  Washington as America's indispensable man, and the early  painters and sculptors were no exception. Hugh Howard  brings to life the founding fathers of American painting,  and the elusive Washington himself, through the history of  their portraits. We meet Charles Willson Peale, the  comrade-in-arms; John Trumbull, the aristocrat; Benjamin  West, the mentor; and Gilbert Stuart, the brilliant wastrel  and most gifted painter of his day. Howard's narrative  traces Washington's interaction with these and other  artists, while offering a fresh and intimate portrait of  the first president. The Painter's Chair is an engaging  narrative of how America's first painters toiled to create  an art worthy of the new republic, and of the hero whom  they turned into an icon.},
      recid = {453850},
      pages = {xix, 297 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2009},
}