Ivan g olinsky biography of barack

PDF: Farmer, Sigismund Ivanowski

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is taking a fresh look at Theodore Roosevelt’s complicated legacy. Although Roosevelt is always featured in our permanent America’s Presidents exhibition, where I currently serve as the lead curator, he will make an appearance in three of the museum’s temporary 2024 exhibitions. Forces of Nature: Voices of the Environmental Movement, on view until September, explores his place in environmental discourse, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return, opening in October, will consider how he is remembered and memorialized. The exhibition 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions, which closed in February, reflected on his role in building a US empire. We borrowed John Singer Sargent’s renowned painting of Roosevelt for the latter, which required lending out the portrait by Adrian Lamb featured in America’s Presidents in exchange. The combined demands of these important shows led our team to dig deep into our holdings for a suitable portrait for America’s Presidents.

Our search yielded a distinctive and mysterious oil painting of Roosevelt by the little-known artist Sigismund de Ivanowski (1874–1944) (fig. 1) that had not previously been on public view at the National Portrait Gallery. In the murky, ominous scene, Roosevelt is dressed in formal attire, calmly walking while surrounded by a cannon, vultures, snakes, and other shadowy monsters, many with piercing red and white eyes. These unusual symbols raised many questions that we wanted to answer for ourselves and our visitors. Examining the painter, the period, and the politics of the time sheds light on the imagery embedded in Ivanowski’s enigmatic portrait, now featured in America’sPresidents. When these aspects of the work are analyzed together, they help illustrate mass media’s role in cultivating caricatures and nontraditional forms of symbolism, which, in thi

Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky (1878-1962) [H RA 1911-1962]
[Born 1878 – died 1962]

SAL record control number: 68089 ;

Record level: Person ;

Record type: Artist ;

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Birth: 1878 ;
Death: 1962 ;
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Member: Honorary resident artist member, 1911-1962 ;
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In loving memory of John Miller 1931-2021.

From: The People of Cornwall, which chronicles the lives of people in Cornwall both present and past.

By Brenda Underwood

John Miller has tattoos—small ones on his upper arms, just below the shoulders. There is an “L” for “liberal”, his political persuasion, which also stands for his mother, Leonore, and granddaughter, Lila. There’s an “E” for “evolution”, his favorite theory, which also toasts his daughter, Emily. Then, there’s an “I” for his son, Ivan, a “C” for long-time love, Carol, and finally, an “SH” for “secular humanist.” These are people and ideas that are important to him.

John was born in New York City in early 1931 and grew up first in the Fieldston section of the West Bronx and then in Manhattan. His mother was the daughter of the painter Ivan Olinsky.* She studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League where her father taught art. John’s father, Henry, was born in Demopolis, Alabama in 1892 but his widowed mother took him and his siblings to New York City where she had relatives in 1895.

Growing up, John attended a number of schools including the Riverdale School, where he started and finished, the Loomis School and the Collegiate School in Manhattan.

John’s father served in the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in the First World War and eventually went into the diamond business. “As a young man he was a very good athlete and played shortstop on the City Athletic Club baseball team,” said John. “Later in middle age he went back to the violin that he had studied as a kid and became quite a good amateur musician. We had chamber music in our apartment on Tuesday nights for many years until his death in 1948.”

John was in his teens when his father died. “I mourned him for years. I’ve told my kids that when you have a parent or a grandparent and they are getting ready to die it’s very important to say goodbye to them. I don’t mean, ‘Goodbye Grandpa,’ I me