Elizabeth Shoumatoff papers
name: label: Creator
content: Shoumatoff, Elizabeth
label: Names
content: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
topic: label: Occupation
content: Portrait painters
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1991 by Nicholas Shoumatoff and Sophie Ward, the son and daughter of Elizabeth Shoumatoff.
creator: label: Creator
content: Shoumatoff, Elizabeth
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Portrait painter. Born 1888. Died 1980.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10.1 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shoueliz
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence consists of letters regarding portraits commissioned; photographs of art work including documentation of portraits done of the Ward family and the Shoumatoff family and presidential portraits, including her painting of Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated in the White House in 1967; studies for various portraits; clippings regarding her presidental portraits and her work; a series of engagement calendars; exhibition catalogs; a large group of color transparencies of paintings; and writings by Shoumatoff including the manuscript for her book FDR'S UNFINISHED PORTRAIT(1991).