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A visitant looks astatine an grounds of paintings by President George W. Bush connected show astatine the George W. Bush Presidential Museum connected Thursday, May 15, 2025, successful Dallas. (AP Photo/Jessica Tobias)
DALLAS – Former President George W. Bush didn't request to look excessively acold for inspiration for his newest works of art.
The 78-year-old has brushed portraits of satellite leaders and radical who immigrated to the U.S. But his newest postulation draws connected scenes overmuch person to home: his statesmanlike room successful Dallas.
The grounds opened Thursday astatine the George W. Bush Presidential Center connected the field of Southern Methodist University. Bush and erstwhile archetypal woman Laura Bush moved to Dallas aft helium near the White House successful 2009, and helium took up lipid coating a fewer years later.
The 35 caller works are an ode not lone to beingness astatine the halfway but besides SMU. The grounds called “A Shining City connected the Hilltop" is some a motion to SMU’s nickname — The Hilltop — and erstwhile President Ronald Reagan’s celebrated usage of the operation “shining metropolis upon a hill” to notation to America, said Teresa Lenling, manager of the statesmanlike museum.
“This features not conscionable the places astir the SMU field but it truly takes a look astatine the radical that are the bosom of this field and the community,” said Lenling, adding that Bush composed the paintings from photos taken astir the halfway and campus.
One of the paintings comes from the center's opening successful 2013, erstwhile then-President Barack Obama and each of the still-living erstwhile presidents, including Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, posed successful beforehand of the caller building.
Devon Yarbrough, who works astatine the center, said she was “very surprised” but pleased to spot her herself successful 1 of the paintings. She’s depicted speechmaking a publication connected her luncheon interruption portion sitting connected a seat nether histrion successful the center’s 15-acre park.
This is the 5th grounds of George W. Bush's creation to beryllium featured astatine the center. His archetypal grounds was a postulation of portraits of satellite leaders including including erstwhile British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Dalai Lama.
He's besides done a postulation of paintings of subject veterans, which were featured successful his publication “Portraits of Courage,” and painted portraits of radical who immigrated to the U.S., which are compiled successful his publication “Out of Many, One.”
The grounds is connected show done Oct. 19.
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