Around noon of April 12, 1945 Elizabeth Shoumatoff began to work on a portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The water color image was striking and would be the last ever made of the president while he was alive. Roosevelt commented, "I have a terrific pain in the back of my head." and collapsed into his chair. He was taken to a bed and passed away at 3:35 that afternoon of cerebral hemorrhage. The portrait was never completed and now hands in Roosevelt's heath and relaxation retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia which was known as the Little White House. Later, Shoumatoff decided to create a complete version from memory, which now sits beside the original.
-Professor Walter
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