Harping on one string - Drawing. Public domain image.
Summary
Former President Theodore Roosevelt plays the one remaining string on a harp with broken strings. The string is frayed, three strands form the words, "third term."
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Signed, lower right: Will.
Title inscribed below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.693)
Early in 1912 Roosevelt considered running for a third term as president, challenging his old friend, incumbent William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination.
Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art, "The Great Game of Politics," 1972.
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Date
01/01/1912
Contributors
Will, 1927-2000, artist
Source
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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