Jul 14, 2020
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 10 Jul 1921 - 11 Aug 2009 David Lenz National Portrait Gallery
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 10 Jul 1921 - 11 Aug 2009 David Lenz National Portrait Gallery
Temple Grandin has some great fashion sence. That is one great shirt! Description: Green shirt with light green and yellow flower patterns and two lapel pins one depicting a cow, the other showing the "4H" logo. Inscription: Tru West Rockmount Ranch Wear / Denver, CO / (on the cuff) Colorado State University
Photo above: Nation Museum of American History source Beneath: a fantastic painting called 'Brocken Spectre and Glory: Portrait of Temple Grandin' by David Lenz. source
Sam and the Perfect World by David Lenz
The art Walker finds objectionable is the exact opposite of all that disturbing abstract expressionism. It is a beautifully uplifting painting in the photo-realistic style of Wisconsin artist David Lenz showing three city children--black, Latino and white--playing with bubbles in a Milwaukee neighborhood.
Lenz’s work, “Wishes in the Wind,” was commissioned by the foundation that maintains the governor’s mansion and placed prominently over a mantle in the first floor public area in November. When Walker and his family moved into the mansion in January, they immediately replaced it with a picture of a bald eagle.
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The young white boy had a father and older brother who were killed by a drunken driver. Lenz earlier had lost a brother in an accident caused by a drunken driver.
Lenz chose the Latina girl as someone benefiting from programs of the Boys & Girls Club he supports. The African-American girl had been homeless and lived for three months with her mother in the Milwaukee Rescue Mission, a nonprofit that receives no government funding.
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The haste with which Walker removed the portrait to put those children out of sight and out of mind is politically significant, Lenz said.
The governor then immediately proposed reducing tax credits for the working poor and gutting state funding for public education and cities.
But it’s the governor’s house, right? Shouldn’t Walker have the right to decorate his own home anyway he wants?
Not really. The first floor of the mansion is a public area used for meetings and receptions. Lenz liked the idea of school tours going through seeing children just like them.
Emphasis mine.