Fantastic matte-finish 4.5 x 8.5 photo of artist Gari Melchers’s full-length portrait of Roosevelt, affixed to a 6.5 x 12.5 mount, boldly signed and inscribed on the mount in fountain pen as president, “To J. C. Welliver with the regards of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Feb. 10th 1909.” Handsomely cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 15.5 x 21.75. In fine condition. Melchers’s painting of President Roosevelt was commissioned by industrialist and art collector Charles Freer as a sign of appreciation for his support; Freer pledged his collections to the United States as long as a public museum was built for them, and the president interceded with the Smithsonian in order to make it happen. Melchers’s superb painting aptly captures Roosevelt in an unusual pose and embodies his policy to ‘speak softly and carry a big stick.’ Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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