Sandra Day O'Connor
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Object Details
- Artist
- Jean Marcellino, born 1938
- Sitter
- Sandra Day O'Connor, born 26 Mar 1930
- Exhibition Label
- Born Duncan, Arizona
- In 1981, President Ronald Reagan fulfilled a campaign promise to appoint the first woman to the U.S. Supreme Court by nominating Arizona lawyer and judge Sandra Day O'Connor to a seat on the bench. After announcing the nomination, Reagan wrote in his diary, "Already the flak is starting and from my own supporters. . . . I think that she'll make a good justice." O'Connor served from 1981 to her retirement in 2006 and left a reputation as a conscientious associate justice, one inclined toward narrowly based judgments rendered on a case-by-case basis, thereby avoiding setting sweeping precedents. A lifelong Republican, O'Connor came to the court after a career in the law and politics in both Arizona and California
- This portrait, along with twenty-four others by an equal number of artists, was created on October 10, 2006, when O'Connor agreed to be the model for a longstanding informal painting group that meets weekly in New York City.
- Provenance
- The artist; gift 2008 to NPG
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Jean Marcellino
- 2006
- Object number
- NPG.2008.87
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Copyright
- © 2008, Jean Marcellino
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on linen
- Dimensions
- Stretcher: 50.8 x 40.6cm (20 x 16")
- Frame: 61.9 x 51.8 x 5.1cm (24 3/8 x 20 3/8 x 2")
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- National Portrait Gallery
- Topic
- Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
- Costume\Robe
- Sandra Day O'Connor: Female
- Sandra Day O'Connor: Law and Law Enforcement\Lawyer
- Sandra Day O'Connor: Law and Law Enforcement\Judge\Justice\US Supreme Court Justice
- Sandra Day O'Connor: Education\Administrator\University\Chancellor
- Sandra Day O'Connor: Politics and Government\State Senator\Arizona
- Sandra Day O'Connor: Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Portrait
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.2008.87
- Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)
- Usage conditions apply
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm443d6a5d6-bc88-4848-8e80-7ceb01d54a64
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