IRISH GENIUS IN AMERICA

WORKING LIST OF PORTRAIT SUBJECTS.

Twenty four paintings will present the chosen subjects in historical context and highlight their area of contribution or greatest achievements.There will be two large panels celebrating the great majority of Irish Americans who passed unknown,: soldiers, maids, laborers, nurses,  miners, seamstresses, drivers, farmers, teachers, etc.
     
Thomas Dongan   1634-1715  Strove for a progressive N.Y. Charter of Liberties.
Charles Carroll      1737-1832   Only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence
John Barry            1745-1803  

Father of the American Navy.

Mathew Brady      1822-1896   Photographer and historian of the Civil War.
Thomas Meagher  1823-1867 

Lawyer, publisher, passionate Civil War hero.
Cardinal Gibbons      1834-1921  Integrated the Catholic Church into American Society
Mary Harris            1837-1930  

Mother Jones. Hero of the American labor movement.
John P. Holland       1840-1914 

Inventor of the first practicable submarine.
Peter J. McGuire     1852-1906   Father of Labor Day.
Woodrow Wilson       1856-1924  Progressive reformer and international leader
Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919 

Steward of the people.
William R. Hearst     1863-1951  Legendary editor, publisher and political leader
Nellie Bly                   1867-1922  America's first leading woman journalist
Alfred E. Smith        1873-1944   Governor of New York. Progressive legislator.
George M. Cohan       1878-1942  Actor, songwriter, playwright, director and producer
Georgia O'Keefe       1887-1986  Staunch individualist and pioneering visual artist.
Eugene G. O'Neil      1888-1953  American playwright. Nobel prize for Literature1936
Elizabeth G. Flynn   1890-1964 Cofounder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Frank Murphy         1890-1949  Attorney General. Ass. Justice U.S. Supreme Court.
F. Scott Fitzgerald    1896-1940  One of America's most gifted writers
William G. Brennan  1906-1997        Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Woody Guthrie 1912-1967 

Influential and prolific folk musician

John F. Kennedy      1917-1963  

First Roman Catholic President of the U.S.
Robert F. Kennedy 1925-1968 Icon of American liberalism
S. Day O'Connor     1930-          First woman appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.