George Washington

Thomas Shields, Alexandria, VA (c. 1815, by descent to Mr. Shield's daughter); by descent to George L. McKean, Chicago (Shields' grandson); to his widow, Blanche F. McKean, Chicago

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). The Face of Liberty. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (December 23, 1975-February 8, 1976). Philadelphia, Centennial Exposition (1876) Washington, D.C., United States National Museum (1884). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits (1886). New York, Metropolitan Opera House, Washington Centennial (Opened April 17, 1889). Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, Loan Exhibition of Historical Portraits (1893). Richmond, VA, Virginia House, Historical Portraits, 1585-183- (1929), no.17. Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, George Washington Bicentennial Historical Loan Exhibition of Portraits of George Washington and His Associates (5 March-24 November 1932), cat. no. 52, pp. 27-28, not illus. Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Trois Siécles d'Art aux États-Unis (May-July 1938), cat. no. 185, not illus. exhibition in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting (October 1940-??), cat. no. 60, repr. on front cover. Alexandria, VA, Alexandria Association, Portraits of Early Alexandrians (1956). Newark, NJ, The Newark Museum, Early New Jersey Artists: 18th and 19th Centuries (7 March-19 May 1957), cat. no. 109, not illus. Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, The World of Benjamin West (1962), illus. cat. no. 67, p. 83. Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress, James Madison and the Search for Nationhood (17 November 1981-31 May 1982), no cat. number, illus. p. 86; inaugural exhibition held in the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., The Library of Congress, Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building, The American Solution: Origins of the United States Constitution (14 May-17 September 1987), illus.