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Augustus (Gus) Hawkins Portrait, 1990

Commissioned upon his retirement in 1990, Augustus (Gus) Hawkins’s Chairman portrait honors his service in the Committee on Education and Labor. The painting includes symbols of his greatest pursuits in public life: civil rights, emblemized by the Abraham Lincoln bookend, and children’s welfare and education, indicated by a copy of Opening Doors for America’s Children, a report published by the National Commission on Children, established in 1989.

Oil on canvas, Joseph Maniscalco, 1990, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

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