<link href="css/9781101617_idstyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:c4b97ac5-bbdc-4324-973a-46ababd81cc2" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body id="insert"> <div class="Basic-Text-Frame"> <div class="h60"> <img alt="clarke_art_01.jpg" class="h60" src="image/clarke_art_01_fmt.jpeg"/> </div> <p class="caption">The Truman Library commissioned Elaine de Kooning to paint a portrait of President Kennedy. She became so consumed by the challenge of capturing his “essence” in a single picture that she spent 1963 painting only him, papering the walls of her studio with his likenesses and falling, she admitted, “a teeny little bit in love with him.”</p> <p class="credit">(Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)</p> </div> </body> </html>