![]() ![]() ![]() The story of how she came to paint it is even more extraordinary, and illustrates why capturing Kennedy on a canvas or in a book can be so challenging, and such an obsession, for artists, biographers and historians. Kennedy in the vivid colors and broad brush strokes of abstract art resulted in the striking portrait that is on permanent display in the “America’s Presidents” exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. ![]() Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America” and “JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President.”Įlaine de Kooning’s attempt to capture the essence of John F. Thurston Clarke is the author of “The Last Campaign: Robert F. ![]()
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