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The City of Santa Paula’s California Oil Museum presents, One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
 By Anonymous — Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
 In honor of Presidents’ Day, the museum will display this special exhibit for the month of February only. Opening February 2 and closing February 27, 2011, this exhibit of portraiture will explore one of the most famous presidents in U.S. History. The California Oil Museum is located at 1001 E. Main Street, Santa Paula. Admission is $4 Adults, $3 Seniors, $1 Students 6-17, 5 years and under are free as well as members. Open Wed – Sun 10am to 4pm. From the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), this is a special portfolio version of the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, One Life: The Mask of Lincoln. The exhibition, which commemorates the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in 2009. Drawn from the Portrait Gallery’s unrivaled collection of Lincoln portraits, it charts Lincoln’s passage from a fresh-faced Illinois congressman to a troubled visage as he led the fight for the Union, culminating in his grizzled isolation as president. The exhibition shows how Lincoln used the new art of photography to convey his image to Americans, letting them see in him what they most desired. These portraits invite the viewer to examine closely the complex and mysterious man who came from nothing and was nationally unknown almost to the moment of his nomination for the presidency. Shaping himself to the uncertainties of the present, mindful of his role as the heir to the Founders, it was Lincoln’s ability that led the nation where it never intended to go: from a political crisis over states’ rights to the revolutionary act of abolishing slavery. After February, the California Oil Museum would like to donate this exhibit to a school or library. If you are interested, please contact Julie Cluster, Assistant Museum Educator, at 805-933-0076 ext 294, or by e-mail at jcluster@spcity.org. Who: California Oil Museum |
