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 "Jeune femme (Young Girl)", he returned to the exhibition the following day and bought four more works, including Francis Picabia's "Danse à la source (Dances at the Spring)", Marcel Duchamp's "Le Roi et la Reine entourés de nus vites", André Derain's "La forêt (Forest at Martigues)", and Maurice de Vlaminck's "Rueil". Eddy writes of "Man on a Balcony" in his "Cubists and Post-Impressionism", March 1914: Of all the Cubist pictures exhibited, most people liked "The Man on the Balcony" best. Why?<br> Because it looked like a good painting of a man in armour.<br> "I like the 'Man in Armour,'" was