or president william mckinley. but what we do in this exhibition is that we put those portraits in conversation with portraits of figures from cuba, from puerto rico, from guam, from the philippines, from hawaii. in order to complete that narrative, to complete the history, to present the different perspectives, and really to provide a panoramic outlook into these history. well, we do start with president mckinley. he's right here, 25th, president of the united states. why is he important to this story? well, he was the president of the united states during the war of 1898. and this is a fascinating portrait. it's a portrait that was painted by the preeminent 19th century puerto rican artist francisco estatal, who is really known for his intention to create a vocabulary of puerto. we can visual identity through portraits of puerto rico's intellectuals, through landscapes of the island, through still lifes of tropical fruit. here, however, he's doing something very different. he has created he has painted a portrait