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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Title
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (1884-1962)
Date
c. 1940-45
Medium
Brown ink and wash, graphite, and charcoal on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 24 3/4 x 19 in. ( 62.9 x 48.3 cm )
Description
Portrait
Credit Line
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Object Number
1947.187
Marks
inscriptions: none
Gallery Label
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the daughter of Elliott and Anna (Hall) Roosevelt, was born in New York. Frankling D. Roosevelt was her fifth cousin. They married in 1905, while he was studying law at Columbia University. Mrs. Roosevelt was the author of several books, including "If You Ask Me" (1946), "This I Remember" (1949), and "On My Own" (1958). Long after she had left the White House, she was referred to as "the First Lady of the World."
Provenance
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
