Leaders of the Johns Hopkins University this week paid tribute to the late Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings by installing a portrait of him in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
Painted by Baltimore artist Christopher Batten, the portrait depicts Cummings against a backdrop that includes an American flag and Baltimore rowhouses.
“This portrait does not simply seek to represent a single man,” said Hopkins President Ron Daniels, at a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the installation. “It is, as Elijah would have wished it to be, a portrait that captures not only what he stood for but, as importantly, who he stood for.”
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