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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Portrait painting of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, wearing a vibrant green jacket with a House Member lapel pin and grasping a desk corner using her right hand. Also to her right is a wooden gavel and U.S. flag while to her left is a framed map labeled the “Gulf of Mexico,” partially showing Florida, the Bahamas, and Cuba./tiles/collection/2/26695.xml
Portrait painting of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, wearing a vibrant green jacket with a House Member lapel pin and grasping a desk corner using her right hand. Also to her right is a wooden gavel and U.S. flag while to her left is a framed map labeled the “Gulf of Mexico,” partially showing Florida, the Bahamas, and Cuba.
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Date

2015

Artist

Bryan Drury

Dimensions

48 × 30 in. (121.9 × 76.2 cm) Framed: 53 3/4 × 36 in. (136.5 × 91.4 cm)

Accession Number

2015.121.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida's 1989 election made her the first Hispanic-American woman in Congress. Of this portrait, made to mark her tenure chairing the Foreign Affairs Committee, Ros-Lehtinen mused that "I hope that people are able to see the map that’s behind me—behind my left shoulder—and I wanted to have a little bit of Cuba in the painting because to me, where I was born is not just a stamp on my passport. It really has helped to define who I am as a person."

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