The Oval Office is the formal working space of the president of the United States. Part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States,it is in the West Wing of the White House,in Washington,D.C.
Spencer Fullerton Baird was an American naturalist,ornithologist,ichthyologist,herpetologist,and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually served as assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1850 to 1878,and as Secretary from 1878 until 1887. He was dedicated to expanding the natural history collections of the Smithsonian which he increased from 6,000 specimens in 1850 to over 2 million by the time of his death. He also served as the U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries from 1871 to 1887 and published over 1,000 works during his lifetime.
Winton Malcolm Blount,known as Red Blount,was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the United States Postmaster General from January 22,1969,to January 1,1972. He founded and served as the chief executive officer of the large construction company,Blount International,based in Montgomery,Alabama.
Arthur Pue Gorman was an American politician. He was leader of the Gorman-Rasin organization with Isaac Freeman Rasin that controlled the Maryland Democratic Party from the late 1870s until his death in 1906. Gorman served as United States Senator from Maryland from 1881 to 1899 and again from 1903 until his death. He was a prominent leader of the Bourbon Democrat faction of the Democratic Party. Gorman was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during Grover Cleveland's 1884 presidential campaign and he is widely credited with securing Cleveland's victory. In 1952 Gorman was described in The Baltimore Sun as "easily the most powerful political figure [Maryland] has ever known."
The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic life-size portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. It depicts the 64-year-old president of the United States during his final year in office. The portrait was a gift to former British Prime Minister William Petty,1st Marquess of Lansdowne,and spent more than 170 years in England.
Wayne Keith Curry was an American politician. He was elected as the executive for Prince George's County,Maryland in November 1994,and served two terms as the county executive from December 1994 to December 2002. His career encompassed government,civic,and community affairs for more than 20 years.
Francis Griffith Newlands was an American politician and land developer who served as United States representative and Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party.
David C. Driskell was an American artist,scholar and curator recognized for his work in establishing African-American Art as a distinct field of study. In his lifetime,Driskell was cited as one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of African-American Art. Driskell held the title of Distinguished University Professor of Art Emeritus at the University of Maryland,College Park. The David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland,is named in his honor.
Lowery Stokes Sims is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art. She is known for her expertise in the work of African,African American,Latinx,Native and Asian American artists such as Wifredo Lam,Fritz Scholder,Romare Bearden,Joyce J. Scott and others. She served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,the Studio Museum in Harlem,and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has frequently served as a guest curator,lectured internationally and published extensively,and has received many public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film !Women Art Revolution.
Charles Harvey Stanley was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician.
The White House Office of the Curator is charged with the conservation and study of the collection of fine art,furniture,and decorative objects used to furnish both the public and private rooms of the White House as an official residence and as an accredited historic house museum.
The Cabinet Room is the meeting room for the officials and advisors to the president of the United States who constitute the Cabinet of the United States. The room is located in the West Wing of the White House,near the Oval Office,and looks out upon the White House Rose Garden.
Lonnie G. Bunch III is an American educator and historian. Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian. He has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator.
Earl Alexander Powell III,nicknamed Rusty Powell,is an American art historian and museum director. From 1980 to 1992,he was Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He was appointed Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C.,in September 1992. The Gallery announced in November 2017 that Powell would step down in 2019. He was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in 2003 and elected Chair in 2005. He was appointed to a second four-year term on August 30,2012,and continues to serve as Chair.
Arthur Kingsland Wheelock Jr. is an American art historian,who served as Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C. until retiring in 2018. Wheelock also teaches as a professor of art history at the University of Maryland.
David Jeremiah Barron is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.
David Valdez is an American photographer,best known for being the Chief Official White House Photographer from 1989 to 1993,during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
Margaret Brown Klapthor was a curator of the Smithsonian Institution's First Ladies collection and an expert on the history of the White House. She served as chairman of the National Museum of American History's Division of Political History.
