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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Elizabeth Shoumatoff

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Elizabeth  Shoumatoff

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Auction Date:2011 Jun 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Color 9.25 x 12 collotype print of the famous unfinished portrait of Roosevelt by Shoumatoff, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, “To Laura Palmer / Elizabeth Shoumatoff, July 30th, 1951. Warm Spring, GA.” Matted and framed to an overall size of 15 x 18. In fine condition. A friend of Lucy Rutherford's, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, had been commissioned to paint a portrait of President Roosevelt. Sketching the president as he chatted and read papers, Shoumatoff initially painted a small portrait of the President. It was agreed that the President would sit for her again at a later time and that she would then paint a much larger portrait. She was invited back to Warm Springs, Georgia and arrived on April 9, 1945, to spend the weekend and paint the larger portrait. At noon on April 12, 1945, as she sketched and painted, the President reached for his head complaining of a terrible headache, collapsed and lost consciousness. FDR was pronounced dead at 3:35 P.M.