Does anyone believe that a Native American artist could not have been found to make a portrait of W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian - and for a much more reasonable price - and likely a far more creative portrait.
Besides - this fetish for portraits by Washingtonians - and others with a high opinion of myself - has always seem to me to be a big waste of money especially taxpayers dollars and in a time of economic troubles on the reservation and the rest of American.
