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Portraits of Nevada Governors and Acting Governors in the Nevada State Capitol Building, Carson City |
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| Governor |
Painter(s) 1. |
Year |
| James Warren Nye |
Francis (Frank) M. Pebbles & A. S. Baldwin |
1879 |
| Henry Goode Blasdel |
Louis O. Lussier & A. P. Hill |
1879 |
| Lewis Rice Bradley |
Louis O. Lussier & A. P. Hill |
1879 |
| John Henry Kinkead |
Louis O. Lussier & A. P. Hill |
Undated |
| Jewett William Adams |
Oscar A. Kunath |
1888 |
| Charles Clark Stevenson |
Oscar A. Kunath |
1890 (?) |
| Frank Bell 2. |
Kaung Foung (K.F.) Young |
Undated |
| Roswell Keyes Colcord |
Theophilus Reichardt (Reichard) |
Undated |
| John Edward Jones |
Theophilus Reichardt (Reichard) |
1897 |
| Reinhold Sadler |
(Gorge) Rene Whaite & F. P. Dann |
1904 |
| John Sparks 3. |
Walter I. Cox (?) |
1914 |
| Denver Sylvester Dickerson 2. |
Kreutz (first name unknown) |
Undated |
| Tasker Lowndes Oddie |
Walter I. Cox |
1916 |
| Emmet Derby Boyle |
Rosemary Mundy |
1924 |
| James Graves Scrugham |
Peter A. Ilyin |
1931 |
| Frederick Bennett Balzar |
Hans Meyer-Kassel |
1935 |
| Morley Isaac Griswold 2. |
Kreutz (first name unknown) |
Undated |
| Richard Kirman 4. |
Royal Stowell and Hans Meyer-Kassel |
1943 |
| Edward Peter Carville |
Hans Meyer-Kassel |
1947 |
| Vail Montgomery Pittman |
Hans Meyer-Kassel |
Undated |
| Charles Hinton Russell 5. |
Jade Fon Woo and Howard Bobbs |
1961 |
| Frank Grant Sawyer |
Edward Fazzio |
1968 |
| Paul Dominique Laxalt |
Daniel Greene |
1971 |
| Donal Neil "Mike" O'Callaghan |
Tom Clark |
Undated |
| Robert Frank List |
John Meyer |
July 1984 |
| Richard Hudson Bryan |
Carina Ryan |
1990 (?) |
| Robert Joseph Miller |
John Meyer |
Nov. 1998 |
| Kenny Carroll Guinn |
Michele Rushworth |
July, 2007 |
Notes:
1. Spelling for painters’ names comes from Painters of Nevada, 1845-1980, by Robert C. McFadden, 2003.
2. The portraits of Acting Governors Bell, Dickerson, and Griswold were painted after passage by the 1979 Nevada Legislature of Senate Bill 560. That measure provided for portraits to be painted at a cost that “must not exceed $5,000 and must include the cost of the portrait and the frame.” Since all of the subjects were deceased, the artists worked from photographs. The bill was passed by the legislature on May 27, 1979. Its language included a requirement that the “portraits must be painted in oil and colors and . . .[t]he painting and framing must be done in the same manner, style, and size as the other portraits of former governors of the State of Nevada displayed in the Capitol corridor.”
3. There are several brushstrokes after Cox’s signature on the Sparks’ portrait. They may be letters, numbers, or nothing at all. The first strokes are two I’s, which may mean he is Walter Cox the 2nd. Or they may be letters. The succeeding brushstrokes are wholly illegible.
4. Two portraits were painted of Governor Kirman, the first paid for by the state, the second apparently by a group of citizens. The second is the one that hangs in the capitol. The location of the first painting, if it has survived, is unknown in spite of a 1964 search by legislative staff.
5. Two portraits were painted of Governor Russell, both paid for by the state. The second hangs in the capitol, the first was unfortunately destroyed at the order of the Legislative Commission (see Painters of Nevada, 1845-1980 for a different version of this story). |
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