by Mike Rhode
7/15: updates to the original post marked with * - 4 pieces from KAL, and one sheet of photos so far.
KAL's newsletter post about his coaster artwork inspired me to finally finish this.
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| Supreme Court justices for the circular corner booth, courtesy of Ann Telnaes |
A few months ago, Matt Wuerker created this guide to who was who in the 1990s caricatures by Edmund Valtman and Ron Coddington on the wall (note 1) in the bar in the Hay-Adams Hotel. He was able to identify everybody but one. To learn more about them, you can read “On The Record With Off The Record's Cartoonists,” White House History (48; Winter 2018): 60-71 at https://issuu.com/whhapubl/docs/whha_journal_48
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| the unknown caricature |
There are other cartoons and caricatures on the walls, but Matt was concerned with identifying these.
Now, an attempt to list all of the coasters they've produced.
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| Kim Jong-un by Matt and Angela Merkel by Kal |
Here's an almost certainly incomplete list of caricatures, with who drew them, and the year when known. I had a short list of ones I didn't own, but I think I've lost that. There were more foreigner leaders iirc, and perhaps a Pope.
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| Mitch McConnell by KAL and Putin by Matt |
| *Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2025 | |
| Angela Merkel | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2017 | |
| Ben Carson | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2015 | |
| Boris Johnson | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2022 | |
| Carly Fiorina | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2015 | |
| Donald Trump | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2015 | |
| *Elizabeth Warren | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2015 | |
| Gavin Newsom | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2023 | |
| George W. Bush with Barack Obama | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | ||
| Joe Biden | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | ||
| *John Kerry | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2015 | |
| *Kristi Noem | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2025 | |
| Mike Pence | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2015 | |
| Mitch McConnell | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2014 | |
| Paul Ryan | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2015 | |
| *Pete Buttigieg | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2025 | |
| Robert Mueller | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | 2018 | |
| Ted Cruz with Canadian Club whiskey | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | ||
| Ted Cruz with tea | Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL' | ||
| Chris Christie | Telnaes, Ann | 2015 | |
| Hillary Clinton | Telnaes, Ann | 2015 | |
| J.D. Vance | Telnaes, Ann | 2024 | |
| Kamala Harris | Telnaes, Ann | 2021 | |
| Lindsay Graham | Telnaes, Ann | 2022 | |
| Melania Trump and the Trump children | Telnaes, Ann | 2016 | |
| Ruth Bader Ginsberg | Telnaes, Ann | 2017 | |
| Anthony Fauci | Wuerker, Matt | 2021 | |
| Bernie Sanders | Wuerker, Matt | 2015 | |
| Bernie Sanders with FDR on the wall | Wuerker, Matt | 2019 | |
| Biden vs. Trump | Wuerker, Matt | 2024? | |
| Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi | Wuerker, Matt | 2016 | |
| Chris Christie and Michellee Obama | Wuerker, Matt | ||
| Donald and Melania Trump decorating the White House | Wuerker, Matt | 2025 | |
| Elizabeth Warren with Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, and Beto O'Rourke | Wuerker, Matt | 2019 | |
| George HW, Barbara, George W and Jeb Bush | Wuerker, Matt | 2015 | |
| Hakeem Jeffries | Wuerker, Matt | 2024? | |
| Hillary Clinton with Bill Clinton | Wuerker, Matt | ||
| Jeb Bush | Wuerker, Matt | 2015 | |
| Joe and Jill Biden | Wuerker, Matt | ||
| John Boehner | Wuerker, Matt | ||
| John Boswell | Wuerker, Matt | ||
| Kamala Harris with Joe Biden | Wuerker, Matt | 2019 | |
| Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, George Santos. Republican representatives. | Wuerker, Matt | 2023 | |
| Kim Jong-un | Wuerker, Matt | 2017 | |
| Marco Rubio | Wuerker, Matt | 2015 | |
| Mike Johnson | Wuerker, Matt | 2024? | |
| Omarosa Manigault Newman | Wuerker, Matt | 2018 | |
| Rand Paul | Wuerker, Matt | 2015 | |
| Ron DeSantis | Wuerker, Matt | 2023 | |
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders | Wuerker, Matt | 2018 | |
| Scott Walker | Wuerker, Matt | 2015 | |
| Tim Kaine with Hillary Clinton | Wuerker, Matt | ||
| Tim Waltz | Wuerker, Matt | 2024 | |
| Vladimir Putin | Wuerker, Matt | 2017 |
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my collection mounted in a portfolio
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| Ruth Ginsberg by Ann |
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| John Boehner by Matt |
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| Melania and Trump by Matt |
(1) These are part of the Library of Congress' Art Wood collection, but were hung in the bar before the Library acquired it from Wood.
