Part 4: National Portrait Gallery: , Eleanor Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, FDR, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

Eleanor Roosevelt

In this final blog about some of the paintings that we saw at the Smithsonian's National
Portrait Gallery, we'll show you portraits of  Bill Clinton, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. 

In this blog, we thought we'd share the Smithsonian's write up about Eleanor Roosevelt. I especially love the quote from her "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." 

ABOUT ELEANOR'S PORTRAIT - The National Portrait Gallery is delighted to display Bernard Frydrysiak’s portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt as a loan honoring the museum’s fiftieth anniversary. Fortuitously 2018 is also the seventieth anniversary of one of Roosevelt’s greatest achievements: the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. It reminds us of the compassion and courage that enabled one remarkable woman to make an enormous difference in the world and recalls one of the “Keys to a More Fulfilling Life” that she shared in her book You Learn by Living, published in 1960:

Abraham Lincoln

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”
 In short, she concluded, “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

FUN FACT- In the gallery hangs what looks like an unfinished portrait of President George Washington that was used for the one dollar bill! 

Bill Clinton

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

George Washington