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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
This Generation of Americans Has a Rendezvous with Destiny
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

This Generation of Americans Has a Rendezvous with Destiny

Artifact IDMO 1946.63.1
Object Type Painting
Artist (American, 1892 - 1967)
Gifter
Date1945
Mediumwatercolor on watercolor board
Dimensionsframe H 37 in x W 28 in x D 1 7/8 in (94 cm x 71.1 cm x 4.8 cm )
Physical DescriptionA watercolor portrait commemorating Franklin D. Roosevelt. The green-toned painting has a small image of a family of five at the bottom, standing on a hill topped by a white cross. Above them rises a large image of FDR's head and shoulders. The artist's signature is in the lower right: c.c. beall.

The painting is framed in a 3" gilt wood frame. On the reverse is a framer's sticker for A. Miller of New York.
Historical NoteWhen FDR died on April 12, 1945, the war was still raging in Europe and the Pacific. This watercolor portrait by Cecil Calvert Beall was the centerpiece of a poster issued during the government’s final war bond campaign, called the Victory Loan Drive, which ran from October 29 to December 8, 1945. The painting was a gift to Eleanor Roosevelt from Raymond P. Gardner of the Fifth Avenue Bank of New York on October 24, 1945.
Additional Details
Custodial History NotePresented to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum by Eleanor Roosevelt on December 20, 1945.
Credit LineGift of Eleanor Roosevelt
National Archives Catalog CollectionFranklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 735948)
National Archives Catalog SeriesPortraits (National Archives Identifier 778816)
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