Truman Balcony Truman Balcony The Truman Balcony is the second-floor balcony of the Executive Residence of the White House, which overlooks the south lawn. It was completed in March 1948, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Truman's plans to build a balcony off the Yellow Oval Room were controversial. Truman argued that the addition of a balcony would provide shade for the first floor portico, avoiding the need for awnings, and would balance the White House's south face by breaking up the long verticals created by the columns. Critics of the proposal, including members of the Commission of Fine Arts, argued
Man on a Balcony format of the full-length portraiture. The treatment of the subject is sufficiently representational to permit the identification of the tall, elegant figure as Dr. Théo Morinaud, a dental surgeon in Paris. After the completion of both this work and the publication of "Du "Cubisme"", Gleizes became convinced that artists could explain themselves as well as or better than critics. He wrote and granted interviews during the following years when "Du "Cubisme"" was enjoying wide circulation and considerable success. While still 'readable' in the figurative or representational sense, "Man on a Balcony" demonstrates the mobile, dynamic fragmentation of form characteristic of