Washington DC Heritage Trail project In October 2013, Dana Ellyn began her newest big painting project. She is using the Cultural Tourism DC Neighborhood Heritage Trail guides to inspire a new series of paintings. She has started with the Downtown Heritage Trail, "Civil War to Civil Rights" which begins just steps from the front door of her studio.

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	Mount Pleasant Heritage Trail 1. Fashionable 16th Street (16th & Mt. Pleasant St, NW) Gibson Girls of Mount Pleasant Helen Hayes was born in Washington D.C. on October 10, 1900. She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington DC. and graduated in 1917. In Dana Ellyn's "Mount Pleasant Gibson Girls" is inspired by a photo of Claudette Colbert playing hostess to Helen Hayes and Ruth Gordon at the Paramount commissary. Gibson Girls of Mount Pleasant 16"x20" acrylic on canvas board CLICK HERE to return to the 'Heritage Trail" paintings Download the guide