GEORGE H. W. BUSH
Standing Firm for Future Generations;
41st President of the United States.
Oil on canvas, 48 x 36".
This portrait was created and
painted with a positive-realism
approach.  After much research
and many preliminary
compositional studies, Mike
worked from a model posing in
costume, from photographic
materials, and from painting
from
life
many details of a life size
White House Oval office set that
Mike designed, built and arranged
in studio.
Private collection.
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TESTIMONIAL
"This portrait has soul"
"In my opinion and as one who
has visited there many times
down through the years, there
are none better at the National
Portrait Gallery in Washington,
D.C. than Mike McVaugh's
portrait of President George
Herbert Walker Bush.  This
portrait has soul."
          --Earl Nash