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To Paint Mrs. Kennedy

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To Paint Mrs. Kennedy

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title : To Paint Mrs. Kennedy

physical description: p26

date : 19640703

description: Operation Washington is the next objective of local artist Albert C. Sterling as he leaves for the U.S. capital to do two more paintings of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. He had completed a portrait of her and another of her late husband only last month. In an interview he told Chinatown News that Mrs. Kennedy has been an ardent equestrian since she was a young girl. When in Washington next week, I will do a painting of her on horseback, perhaps using as setting the lawn of Hammersmith Farm, Newport, where she was married in St. Mary's church. The portrait will be 51⁄2 by 7 feet. He also plans to do one of attorney general Robert Kennedy. At the conclusion of his assignment, Mr. Sterling will head for Montreal to attend the International Artists Convention where he is expected to paint a 45 ft. mural. Currently he has some of his work on display at Victoria's Cellar restaurant in the Montreal Trust Building. Montreal's Elizabeth Hotel also has some of his oil portraits on permanent displa

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