[PW] Art in the White House

[Mary Lou White]

Ann,
Something to consider, is that Ellen Axson Wilson, Wilson's first wife, was
an artist herself, and may well have had some of her own work on display there,
even if only in the family quarters.
http://www.firstladies.org/curriculum/educational-biography.aspx?biography=28
						Mary Lou White


On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Ann Borkin wrote:

> I've been told that Nadine Merrill Persson, born in 1942, was the first
> female artist to have paintings in the White House.  I need to check the
> validity of this statement.  I've been e-mailing queries to art museum
> libraries, including Library of Congress and (when I can get contact
> information) curators and White House historians.
>
> Does anybody reading this have other suggestions about how I could confirm
> (or  disprove) this statement?
>
> Ann Borkin
> Associate Librarian
> Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP
> San Francisco, CA
> 415-369-7093
> aborkin at thelen.com
>
>
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