Shoumatoff portrait of fdr biography

Fdr last words

The unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt is a watercolor of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, by Elizabeth Shoumatoff.


shoumatoff portrait of fdr biography

Lbj portrait

The unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt is a watercolor of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, by Elizabeth Shoumatoff.


Fdr young

An experience watercolor painter, Shoumatoff painted a small portrait of Franklin Roosevelt in In Lucy Rutherford encouraged her to paint another portrait of .

Fdr unfinished portrait
In her book titled FDR's Unfinished Portrait: A Memoir, Shoumatoff gives an account of the creation of these three historic paintings: "In the afternoon [of April 11, , the day before FDR's death] I continued making sketches for the background of the portrait in the cottage [FDR's Little White House] with Lucy [Mercer Rutherfurd] watching.