Show Illinois Illinois' Proud of Governors Governors' Gallery SPRINGFIELD LD hi Sept c d AP When some artistic Illinois legislator legislator legis legis- lator fator years ago introduced a bill to money for Cor an oil por- por tr trait lt of the first Illinois oh governor governor I this he set a precedent which gave state another first plat place among the forty Thomas H. H Stevenson artist of Philadelphia who has just finished reconditioning tbs tha portraits of ot Il Illinois Illinois' Ii- Ii governors said that no other state but Illinois has a complete set of ot life Ilfe portraits of Its governor Mr 11 Stevenson placed Illinois first firstIn firstIn In this respect because some somo cultured cultured cul cul cultured legislator knew the value of oil paintings s. s Other states he heald heald ald said h have ve some fine pictures of governors rs Including Maryland and the most complete set of colonial governors' governors portraits hang Jiang In Inde hall in Philadelphia but no other state approaches Illinois in inthe the degree of ot excellence and completeness com corn of ot Its Us executive portrait gallery galler A conservative estimate of ot the value of the gallery Mr Stevenson Steven Steven- son said would be about Among the finest examples s of ot portrait portrait portrait por por- trait in the a lot he said Is 18 that of ot Governor Shelby M. M Cullom done by G. G P. P A. A He Healy ly and wo worth th These hang in the governors governor's gover gov gov- er ors office and In tn the private of office office of- of fice flee is the picture of Patrick Henry an early official l of ot this state while it was yet yeka yeta a part of ot Virginia I |