it's an elliott clark landscape, and elliott clark was a contemporary of wilson's first wife ellen who in her own right was a painter. she painted the painting that we see across the room here of the madonna and child. this is a painting she painted in the 1890s, while wilson was a professor at princeton university, and it hung at each of the wilsons' homes, at library place in princeton, and prospect house when wilson was the president of princeton, university. and then in the white house for eight years. we know from the accounts of wilson's funeral, which was conducted in this room in 1924 that this painting hung above the casket. the gifts of state that wilson received, again, the first of our american presidents to travel to europe while president, less than a month after the signing of the armistice in november of 1918, woodrow wilson boarded a ship and headed off to europe to personally negotiate the treat they would bring an end to the first world war anto