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Title
William
Howard
Taft
Portrait
Subject
Ohio Government
Presidents and Politics
Arts and Entertainment
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Presidents
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
This
oil-on-canvas
painting
of
William
Howard
Taft
was
commissioned
by
Taft's
older
half-brother
,
Charles
Phelps
Taft
(1843-1929)
,
benefactor
of the
Taft
Museum
of
Art
in
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
.
Taft
took
office
in
January
of
1909
and the
portrait
was
painted
at the
White
House
the
following
April
. This
portrait
was
Joaquin
Sorolla
y
Bastida's
most
prestigious
commission
. The
portrait
measures
59
"
x
31.50
"
(149.86
x
80.01
cm)
.
William
Howard
Taft
(1857-1930)
, the
twenty-seventh
president
of the
United
States
,
accepted
his
party's
nomination
for the
presidency
from the
front
lawn
of his
half-brother's
home
,
now
the
Taft
Museum
of
Art
.
Prior
to that
time
,
William
Howard
was a
lawyer
in his
native
Cincinnati
and in
1904
had been
appointed
secretary
of
war
by
President
Theodore
Roosevelt
.
Following
his
presidency
,
Taft
become
chief
justice
of the
Supreme
Court
of the
United
States
, the
only
president
to
achieve
this
distinction
.
Joaquin
Sorolla
y
Bastida
(1863-1923)
is
known
as a
painter
of
light
. As
one
of the
first
plein-air
artists
of his
country
, he
introduced
to
Spanish
art
numerous
pictorial
effects
that
paralleled
the
principal
notions
of
French
impressionism
. His
favorite
theme
was the
sea
, and he
painted
numerous
beach
scenes
.
During
his
mature
years
portraiture
also
assumed
an
increasingly
large
position
in his
repertoire
.
Creator
Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin, 1863-1923
Date of Original
1909
Source
Audiovisual material
2.1931
Submitting Institution
Taft Museum of Art
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1717_1913115_001.tif
Image Height
3000
Image Width
2023
File Size
1179.156 KB
Full Text
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