George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of ...

has inspired artistic and cultural works for more than two hundred years. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. The entries represent portrayals that a reader has a reasonable chance of encountering rather than a complete catalog. Lesser known works are not included. For purposes of classification, popular culture music is a separate section from operas and oratorios. Television covers live action series, TV movies, miniseries, and North American animation but not Japanese anime, which appears with manga and graphic novels.

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Washington is among the historical figures depicted in '' Our Nation's 200th Birthday, The Telephone's 100th Birthday'' (1976) by

Stanley Meltzoff Stanley Meltzoff (March 27, 1917 - November 9, 2006) was an American painter most known for his marine paintings. Early life and career Born in New York City to father Nathan, a cantor at a Manhattan synagogue, Stanley Meltzoff graduated from t ...

for

Bell System The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundr ...

"Stanley Meltzoff Archives: The 1976 Bell System Telephone Book Cover"

JKL Museum of Telephony The American Museum of Telephony, known as the JKL Museum of Telephony, is a private telephone and telephone memorabilia museum originally located in Mountain Ranch, California. The museum was destroyed in 2015 in the Butte Fire The Butte F ...

(December 19, 2015); retrieved March 16, 2021

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Image: George Washington French Empire mantel clock.jpg, A ca. 1810–1815 French Empire mantel clock, portraying George Washington. In the drapery swag under the dial can be read the famous quote by Henry Lee. Image: US one dollar bill, obverse, series 2009.jpg, The

United States one-dollar bill The United States one-dollar bill ($1), sometimes referred to as a single, has been the lowest value denomination of United States paper currency since the discontinuation of U.S. fractional currency notes in 1876. An image of the first U. ...

has George Washington's face on it. Image: Federal Hall NYC 27.JPG, The statue of Washington outside

Federal Hall National Memorial Federal Hall is a historic building at 26 Wall Street in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The current Greek Revival–style building, completed in 1842 as the Custom House, is operated by the National Park Service as a na ...

, facing

Wall Street Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for ...

and the

New York Stock Exchange Building The New York Stock Exchange Building (also the NYSE Building), in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, serves as the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It is composed of two connected structures occupyin ...

in New York City. Image: Mount Rushmore2.jpg, Construction on the George Washington portrait at

Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: ''Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe'', or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakot ...

, c. 1932. Image: 2014 ATB Quarter Obv.png, Quarter with profile of Washington bust. He faces left regally and wears a colonial-style queue in his hair. "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" is at top, "QUARTER DOLLAR" at bottom, "LIBERTY" at left, and "IN GOD WE TRUST" above "P" at right. Just below the bust is "JF uc" in tiny letters.

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References

* Bergmann, Linda S. "Epic, Parody, and National Identity: George Washington in Nineteenth-Century American Humor." ''Studies in American Humor'' 2 (1995): 1-22
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* Browne, Stephen Howard. ''The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic'' (Penn State Press, 2020) on the inaugural address
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* Bruggeman, Seth C. ''Here, George Washington was born: Memory, material culture, and the public history of a national monument'' (U of Georgia Press, 2011). * Cavitch, Max. "The man that was used up: Poetry, particularity, and the politics of remembering George Washington." ''American Literature'' 75.2 (2003): 247-274
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* Greenhalgh, Adam. " 'Not a man but a god' the apotheosis of Gilbert Stuart’s Athenaeum portrait of George Washington." ''Winterthur Portfolio'' 41.4 (2007): 269-304
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* Jacobs, Phoebe Lloyd. "John James Barralet and the Apotheosis of George Washington." ''Winterthur Portfolio'' 12 (1977): 115-137
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* Marks, Arthur S. "The statue of King George III in New York and the iconology of regicide." ''American Art Journal'' 13.3 (1981): 61-82
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on tearing down statues * Marling, Karal Ann. '' George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876-1986'' (Harvard University Press, 1988). * Mitnick, Barbara J., et al. ''George Washington: American Symbol'' (Hudson Hills, 1999). * Savage, Kirk. "The self-made monument: George Washington and the fight to erect a national memorial." ''Winterthur Portfolio'' 22.4 (1987): 225-242
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* Schwartz, Barry. "Social change and collective memory: The democratization of George Washington." ''American Sociological Review'' (1991): 221-236
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* Tschachler, Heinz. ''George Washington and Political Fatherhood: The Endurance of a National Myth'' (McFarland, 2020) re "Father of his country" slogan. * Young, Christopher J. "Memory by Consensus: Remembering the American Revolutionary War in Chicago." ''Journal of American Studies'' 50.4 (2016): 971-997
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External links

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"Memory and Myth: George Washington in American Art"
from Smithsonian
"George Washington in American Art"
Lesson plan for secondary schools, from

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