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The unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Elizabeth Shoumatoff. – Historic Photo Reproduction

The unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Elizabeth Shoumatoff., New York : Gimbel Brothers, c1945. — historic print
The unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Elizabeth Shoumatoff., New York : Gimbel Brothers, c1945.. Historic print from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: The unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Elizabeth Shoumatoff., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Elizabeth Shoumatoff.

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The painting is unfinished because Franklin D. Roosevelt died at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, while Elizabeth Shoumatoff was still working from sittings there. The Russian-born painter left the canvas incomplete, so it stands as a record of an interrupted commission. This color halftone, issued by the New York department store Gimbel Brothers around 1945, carried the image to a wide public in the weeks after his death, when many Americans wanted a picture of their president to keep.

Created / publishedNew York : Gimbel Brothers, c1945.
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.
GenrePortraits 1940-1950.Portrait paintings Reproductions 1940-1950.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1940-1950.
NotesK58507 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsRoosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano),--1882-1945.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,124 × 1,439 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217187

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