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Elizabeth Shoumatoff Papers, 1945-1994 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Collection Overview

Title: Elizabeth Shoumatoff Papers, 1945-1994Add to your cart.

Primary Creator: Shoumatoff, Elizabeth (1888-1980)

Extent: -1.0 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 06/30/2004

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection consists primarily of legal materials, correspondence, speeches, photographs, news clippings, and printed materials related to the "Unfinished Portrait" she painted of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943. Correspondents include Grace Tully, Laura Delano, and Mary Thrash, an Interpretive Ranger at the Little White House Historic Site in Warm Springs, Georgia.

Collection Historical Note

Elizabeth Avinoff Schoumatoff was bron in Kharkov, Ukrain and in 1917 emigrated to the United States, where she settled in Locust Valley, New York. Around 1937 she met Lucy Mercer Rutherford, a long-time friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt. An experience watercolor painter, Shoumatoff painted a small portrait of Franklin Roosevelt in 1943. In 1945 Lucy Rutherford encouraged her to paint another portrait of Roosevelt. Along with Rutherford she traveled to Warm Springs, Georgia, in April 1945, where Roosevelt agreed to sit for the artist. Shoumatoff was painting the portrait when Roosevelt was sticken by the cerebral hemorrhage that killed him. The resulting "Unfinished Portrait" now resides at the Little White House in Warm Springs.

Administrative Information

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions: This collection is available for use by the general public.

Use Restrictions: This material is subject to copyright restrictions under Title 17 of the U.S. Code.

Acquisition Source: Antonia Foster Shoumatoff

Related Materials: Elizabeth Shoumatoff papers, 1945-1991. For more information please see http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/elizabeth-shoumatoff-papers-10779.

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Correspondence, 1945-1991Add to your cart.

1943 Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1971Add to your cart.

Legal Material - "Last Photograph" of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945-1994Add to your cart.

Legal Material - "Unfinished Portrait" of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945-1953Add to your cart.

Legal Materials - Shoumatoff Papers Donated to Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, 1981-1991Add to your cart.

Printed Materials - Brochures of the Little White HouseAdd to your cart.

Printed Materials - Invitations and ProgramsAdd to your cart.

Printed Materials - Pamphlets about the "Unfinished Portrait" of Franklin D. RooseveltAdd to your cart.

Printed Materials - NewsclippingsAdd to your cart.

Printed Materials - Photocopies of PhotographsAdd to your cart.

Printed Materials - MiscellaneousAdd to your cart.

Speeches, 1952-1970Add to your cart.

Miscellaneous MaterialsAdd to your cart.