Louisiana State Exhibit Museum
February 10 -- May 31, 2002

CSPAN's
American Presidents:
Life Portraits Exhibition

The Exhibit

Sponsored by C-SPAN and the White House Historical Association, this exhibit features the only complete collection of American presidential oil portraits by one artist, Chas Fagan. Accompanying the Fagan portraits are biographical sketches of the 42 presidents along with photographs and prints illustrating each president's time in the White House. These photographs often show the presidents in candid moments with their families.

As part of an ongoing committment to historical programming, C-SPAN created this exhibit as an extension of its 1999 series which explored the personal lives of the presidents. The exhibit debuted in Washington, DC, in September 1999.

Chas Fagan

Commissioned by C-SPAN to create 42 oil portraits of the American presidents, Mr. Fagan worked for three months in his Glenside, PA, studio to complete the project. A 1988 Yale University graduate with a degree in Russian and East European Studies, Mr. Fagan's only formal art training came when he was ten and living in Brussels. Hungarian portraitist Ilona Karoly Szechenyi selected the young man for a series of art lessons. During his teenage years, Mr. Fagan's family returned to the United States and settled in rural Pennsylvania, the subject of many of his landscape paintings. He has worked as a portraitist, landscape artist and sculptor.

Schedule
The public is invited to the free opening reception on Sunday, February 10, 2002. The exhibition will remain through May 31st. Read our Press Release for more details.