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2 unusual facts about Charles Bird King


Charles Bird King

After the administration changed and McKenney left the BIA, the agency donated the Native American portrait collection to the National Institute, but shoddy care and displays kept it from the public eye.

The government, private collectors, and museums hold portraits by a number of talented United States’ painters, including James Otto Lewis and George Cooke.


Tuscaloosa Museum of Art

Artists represented include John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam as well as several artists of importance to American Art, including Albert Bierstadt, Rembrandt Peale, Edward Hicks, Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, Edward Potthast, and Charles Bird King.


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