July 09, 2024 / By mobanmarket
MANASSAS, VA — Manassas officials took a moment during Monday’s City Council meeting to remember Nancy Hersch Ingram, an accomplished artist who contributed to Manassas art and history preservation.
On Monday, state Sen. Jeremy McPike (D-Prince William) presented the Virginia Senate resolution co-sponsored by Del. Michelle Maldonado (D-Manassas) honoring Hersch Ingram to Manassas City Council. Hersch Ingram, a Northern Virginia native who made portraits and other art displayed internationally, died on April 14, 2022. She had been a Manassas resident with a studio downtown since 1957.
Hersch Ingram was in her 20s when she did her first high-profile portrait, one of Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson. That painting is today part of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery collection. According to Northern Virginia Magazine, she was supposed to paint a portrait of President John F. Kennedy with family, but that didn’t occur due to Kennedy’s assassination. According to her website, Hersch Ingram has done paintings of U.S. Cabinet members, the chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, six mayors of Manassas and others.
“Nancy’s timing with the City of Manassas was so perfect,” said McPike. “Not only as a skilled artist, her works appear in the Smithsonian, the National Portrait Gallery, in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, at the U.S. Department of Treasury and other corporate collections domestically and internationally. But they [are] also down the halls of City Hall, portraits of mayors and so many other things.”
Mayor Michelle Davis Younger said Hersch Ingram was excited to do the mayor’s portrait but was unable to do it before her 2022 death.
“She was a very special lady, and we’re just so glad we got to know her and share time with her, because she just left a mark here in the city that will never go away. She’ll always be here with us,” said Davis Younger.
Hersch Ingram grew up in Old Town Alexandria, where she gained an appreciation for historic architecture. McPike said Hersch Ingram was “the first leading figure of preservation of historic homes in Manassas.” She was an inaugural member and vice chair of the city’s architectural review board.
“I think if you look at that work and also developing their own guidebook for historic preservation and so many other works that she participated in, her fingerprints are everywhere,” said McPike.
Hersch Ingram was a member of the Manassas Ballet Theatre’s advisory board, the Center for the Arts of Greater Manassas and Prince William County board of directors, ARTfactory board, Board of Visitors at Wake Forest University and advisory board at George Mason University’s Science and Technology Campus in Manassas.
Hersch Ingram’s son Stephen and relative Lynn Nestor were present to accept the resolution honoring their late relative.
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