"Lying in State"
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"Lying in State"
Oil painting on canvas created by artist Bernadine Stetzel that shows President Kennedy's casket lying in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Artist Stetzel described this piece as follows: "President Kennedy's flag draped casket lies in state in the rotunda of the Capitol."An enthusiastic supporter of John F. Kennedy, Stetzel was devastated by the assassination. Shortly after visiting the president’s gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery in 1968, she began work on a series of paintings that depicted the life of the late president. Between 1968 and 1985, with a long break in the middle, Bernadine Stetzel created 71 works that followed John F. Kennedy from his christening ceremony to the eternal flame at his gravesite.
"Lying in State"
1968 - 1985
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
Bernadine Stetzel Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2011.034.0063
Included in the Museum's temporary exhibit, "Mourning a President," about the funeral and mourning rites for President John F. Kennedy, this item will be on display on the Museum's seventh floor from November 17, 2017 to February 19, 2018. -- Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
Bernadine Stetzel based many of her Kennedy portraits on actual photographs. This overhead view of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda was likely inspired by or based on a color photograph taken by National Geographic photographer George F. Mobley. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
"Lying in State"
Oil painting on canvas created by artist Bernadine Stetzel that shows President Kennedy's casket lying in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Artist Stetzel described this piece as follows: "President Kennedy's flag draped casket lies in state in the rotunda of the Capitol."An enthusiastic supporter of John F. Kennedy, Stetzel was devastated by the assassination. Shortly after visiting the president’s gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery in 1968, she began work on a series of paintings that depicted the life of the late president. Between 1968 and 1985, with a long break in the middle, Bernadine Stetzel created 71 works that followed John F. Kennedy from his christening ceremony to the eternal flame at his gravesite.
"Lying in State"
1968 - 1985
Artwork
Artist
Casket
Rotunda
Mourning
Funeral
Stetzel, Bernadine
U.S. Capitol
Fremont
Washington, D.C.
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm)
Bernadine Stetzel Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2011.034.0063
Included in the Museum's temporary exhibit, "Mourning a President," about the funeral and mourning rites for President John F. Kennedy, this item will be on display on the Museum's seventh floor from November 17, 2017 to February 19, 2018. -- Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
Bernadine Stetzel based many of her Kennedy portraits on actual photographs. This overhead view of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda was likely inspired by or based on a color photograph taken by National Geographic photographer George F. Mobley. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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