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Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits dedicated on march 17th, 1941, the National Gallery of art was a gift to the American People from financier andrew melon, who served as treasury secretary from 1921 to 1932. Up next, we visit the museum tos learn about early american portrait painting and the work of John Singleton copley. Hello. Im Dianne Stephens from the education department, the National Gallery of art. Were standing in a room full of portraits by John Singleton par copley, americas most importa t colonial portrait painter. Mu when you see copleys portraits, you want...

Comfortable. Copley has given us more than just a representation of his features, but we have a sense of his status and his feeling about himself. Hes painted copley has a great attention to detail. He doesnt leave anything out. Hes got the mole under epes left eye is there. His somewhat wrinkled skin is portrayed just as it is. The fact hes bursting his jacket, hes filling out his jacket anyway, is evident. The hand he has in front of him, i think, gilbert stuart, the american painter, said later about that hand if you prick that hand, blood will spurt out. Its so realistically painted with n...

Historians in arlington, virginia. Professors, authors, and graduate students about the research. This interview is about 20 minutes. Steve as it history professor, you focus on chinese american before and after world war ii. Take us back to this. Brooks you lived under the shadow of the chinese exclusion act, which is a law passed in 1882 that actually surveyed all chinese immigration to the United States. People forget that today the chinese were once looked upon as undesirable, just because of their race. Chineseamericans growing up at were born in they the United States, they could be amou...

This is a 90 minute event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. I am the director of the Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. The methodists actually hired me right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children le...

Up next in the second of a twopart program, we visit the museum to learn about early american portrait paintings. In this program we feature the work of Gilbert Stuart. His unfinished portrait of George Washington is the image on the one dollar bill. Dianne hello, i am Dianne Stephens from the National Gallery of art. John is an artist who is well known for his history paintings in america, not as much portraiture. He aspired to be a history painter, then he eventually went to england and spent a couple of years with Benjamin West. West was an amazing figure who welcomed almost every painter t...