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The Roosevelts' Art: Personal Stories

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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
The Roosevelts' Art: Personal StoriesThursday, March 31, 2016 - Sunday, May 1, 2016

Can art reveal something new about a person we think we know? Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt owned and enjoyed a wide variety of art. They filled the walls of their homes in Hyde Park, New York City, Warm Springs, and Washington, D.C. with paintings, prints, and drawings.

This special exhibition presented 22 diverse works of art selected from the Museum collection of the FDR Library that have a special meaning or connection to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Some provide windows into friendships, family bonds, or political relationships. Others reveal intellectual interests or cast light on dramatic moments. Still others offer only hints about their deeper meaning to their owner—mere glimpses into a private world. They are open to multiple interpretations—and are interesting for that reason.

Together, these artworks offer us a different way to encounter the Roosevelts—one that can yield new insights into the many sides of these two complex individuals.

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Alexander Jackson Davis Sketchbook
MO 1942.214
Alexander Jackson Davis
ca. 1830-1850
Castle of Clervaux. . .
MO 1941.3.23
Joseph Meyers
1939
The Constitution pursued by the English Squadron
MO 1969.30
Horacio Gerardo Garcia
1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt Portrait
MO 1952.380
William Pachner
1944
Hyde Park Post Office Model
MO 1942.118.1
Olin Dows
1940
Marrakech (Maroc) Porte Bab Khemis
MO 1943.226.1
Marius Hubert-Robert
ca. 1926-1928
The Oval Room White House
MO 1971.3
John Christen Johansen
1934
Painting of Top Cottage
MO 1941.3.294
Mitchell Jamieson
1940
Portrait Painting of Eleanor Roosevelt
MO 1972.51
Daniel E. Greene N.A.
1962
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