SERIES 11: PORTRAITS Boxes 111 - 112; 13 framed items
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The Portraits Series consists of forty-seven oversized or framed portraits of John Glenn dating from 1960 to 1998. Contained within the series are larger format, airbrushed prints of many of the photographic portraits of Glenn located within the Photographs Series. The series also contains a number of original oil paintings and pen and ink drawings of Glenn done by both professional and amateur artists. Most of these portraits date from the early 1960s and depict Glenn as an astronaut in NASA's Project Mercury space program. The remaining items are portraits of Glenn as a U.S. Senator and date from the mid-1970s to early 1980s. Included in the series is an oil portrait depicting Glenn as an astronaut for the Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-95. The Boeing Corporation commissioned this portrait and presented it to Glenn in 1998.