Washington journal on our companion network c pan. This week on american artifacts, we tour the american president s life portraits exhibit at the Herbert Hoover president ial library and museum in west branch, iowa. North carolina painter and sculptor chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the library by cspan in partnership with media come. Curator Marcus Eckhardt an shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Were in west brank, iowa, in the museum portion of the building and this is our temporary exhibit which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit everybody cspan and then adding something personal from each man at this point each man to show Something Different about them, because we think of them this is
In the museum portion of the building and this is our temporary exhibit which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit from cspan and then adding something personal from each man, at this point each man, to show Something Different about them, because we think of them this is about the president s but we want to show them as human beings, as well. Thats an interesting aspect. And some of these guys were very interesting. To borrow the objects, it was an extensive process trying to find sites that were associated with the different people and getting them to agree to loan us items. Among other people we did work with the other president ial libraries and the National Archives president ial library system. And then everything from the National Park service we worked with to individual historical societies, state historical societies, and even a few individuals. One of the things about the temporary e
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