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Russian portrait artist and US President: how was the “Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt written»
Elizabeth Shumatova was a Russian-American artist who created numerous portraits of influential American and European figures throughout the twentieth century. But she is best known for painting an unfinished portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Why couldn’t she finish the job?
“Unfinished portrait” is a painting by Elizabeth Nikolaevna Shumatova, in which she portrayed the former US President-Franklin Roosevelt. The artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of the President and she began her work around noon on April 12, 1945. During lunch, Roosevelt complained of a headache and later on… he collapsed into a chair. Continue reading
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