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Bush\u2019s portraits of veterans make Washington debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It begins with the eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some are haunted, some are piercing, some appear to be seeking answers to an unnerving, unspoken question, and some \u2014 not many, but some \u2014 are happy, crinkled into joyous slits above broad grins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the artist, the former President George W. Bush, the eyes are the trickiest part of portrait painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you notice, most of these start with the eyes. They really are the gateway to the soul,\u201d said former Army Cpl. Joshua Mitchell, whose own eyes were captured in portraiture, along with those 97 other wounded veterans, by the 43rd president. \u201cI know that sounds clich\u00e9 \u2026 a lot of people don\u2019t give him credit for because of his Texas antics, think he\u2019s a caricature \u2026 but he\u2019s deeply serious \u2026 like he really is trying to look inside us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bush\u2019s portraits of injured veterans made their debut in the 2017 bestseller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/2016\/09\/14\/george-w-bush-paintings-book-coming-in-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPortraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief\u2019s Tribute to America\u2019s Warriors.<\/a>\u201d They have traveled and been showcased at small museums around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this month, they landed in their most prominent exhibition venue to date: the new, $175 million dollar addition to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The show, to mark Veterans Day, is the first art exhibit to be hosted at the facility, which opened Sept. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like all exhibitions of Bush\u2019s veterans\u2019 portraits, the artist was not in attendance at the opening on Oct. 7. The man who famously doesn\u2019t sign his portraits because he doesn\u2019t want to take away from the subject matter, left the introduction to the service members whose visages are featured in the larger-than-life color portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter said the exhibit, Portraits of Courage, is a \u201cfitting first exhibition to be hosted in the REACH,\u201d the new space\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2019\/01\/24\/the-art-of-war-how-combat-artists-are-capturing-the-soul-of-the-marine-corps\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FoxCompanyMortars_cjb.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">The Art of War: How combat artists are capturing the soul of the Marine Corps<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cGo to war, do art\u201d is now the battle cry of the Marine combat artists.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Kennedy Center is proud to share these works, painted by a living president, that honor the men and women who defend our freedom to explore, celebrate and create art,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c43\u2019s\u201d post-presidential hobby became known to the world in 2013 when his early works, which included decidedly odd self-portraits and paintings of pets, were leaked online by a hacker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He took up the hobby after reading Winston Churchill\u2019s essay \u201cPainting as a Pastime,\u201d published in 1948, and has been inspired to take art lessons from a series of instructors, who introduced him to a wider array of colors and broad brush strokes in a style known as impasto (think Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cStarry Night,\u201d but not by a Great Master).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After moving on from pets to landscapes and world leaders he worked alongside, one of his instructors, Sedrick Huckaby, an associate professor of painting at the University of Texas at Arlington, suggested he paint people he \u201cknows well but others don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He immediately thought of post 9\/11 veterans, according to a a video that introduces the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would like to remind the American people what an asset they have in veterans and they continue to be,\u201d Bush says in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bushcenter.org\/explore-our-work\/issues\/military-service-initiative.html\" target=_blank>Bush Institute\u2019s Military Service Initiative, <\/a>an organization that sponsors programs for veterans and brings together businesses, non-profits and universities to support post 9\/11 veterans, the former president had no shortage of subjects. He met many of those portrayed during the Bush Institute W100K, a mountain bike ride held on his ranch in Crawford, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 52,800 U.S. personnel have been injured in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Army Cpl. Joshua Michael was among those selected. He still has no idea why the former president chose him: he rode in the W100K and was told that Bush watched his biography video and had seen him around the ranch, where the San Antonio resident sometimes volunteered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael grew up in Shelbyville, Illinois, and enlisted in the Army in 2009. Assigned to C-Co, 2-30 Infantry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, he deployed to Afghanistan in 2010. He had been there nearly a year when his unit came under mortar fire in the Tengi Valley. An 82 mm mortar round landed five feet from Michael, the corner of a Hesco barrier he was near shielding him enough to save his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know that I\u2019d been hit and when I went to get up, my arm just shattered. That\u2019s when I knew I was in trouble. It\u2019s a weird thing what goes through your mind, though. I remember trying really hard not to say anything stupid because if I survived this, I knew I\u2019d hear it again \u2026 I was trying to be all cool,\u201d Michael remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The blast shredded Michael\u2019s left arm and leg and \u201crung [his] bell pretty hard. He was medevaced to Bagram, then to Landstuhl and eventually to the United States, where he landed on Sept. 11, 2011. He was was medically retired from the Army in 2013; it was during his recovery that Michael took up mountain biking to strengthen his grip and was offered the chance ride with Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has since volunteered at Bush\u2019s ranch and traveled to promote the exhibit, including the trip to Washington \u2014 his first ever to the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is quick to defend the man who sent U.S. troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, a president who continues to be controversial, even in his artwork, which has been described by some critics as atonement for launching the nation\u2019s longest war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael disagrees with that assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not that he\u2019s guilty. He happened to be commander in chief on 9\/11. He cares very deeply for veterans and wants to recognize the service and the sacrifice of the force, an all-volunteer force,\u201d Michael said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retired Marine Staff Sgt. Timothy Brown, a former explosive ordinance disposal technician who lost his legs and right arm to a secondary improvised explosive device while disarming a primary IED in Afghanistan, is another of the 96 men and two women featured in Bush\u2019s art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He participated in the W100K in 2013 using a hand-cycle and later found out Bush had painted him. \u201cI am pretty honored by the results \u2026 it was made by a president, I don\u2019t care if it was a stick figure!\u201d said Brown during the opening reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former service member who is now studying management and marketing at Georgetown University described Bush\u2019s portrait project as \u201cpretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s so unique to see a president connect so directly with the men and women that bore the burden of these decisions. That burden is not lost on him. He is very well aware of it,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAll of us mean something to him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bush\u2019s book on the paintings went to No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list when it was introduced in 2017 and it continues to be a top seller on Amazon. All sales proceeds go toward veterans transition and leadership programs sponsored by his institute\u2019s Military Service Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/calendar\/event\/ZURRA\" target=_blank>Timed tickets to Portraits of Courage at the Kennedy Center are available for free<\/a>. The show runs through Nov. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are excited for the D.C. community to tour the exhibit and learn more about the issues our nation\u2019s veterans face in their transition from military to civilian life,\u201d said Kenneth Hersh, president and chief executive officer of the George W. 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