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Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from October 1858 to December 1870. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s involvement in the American Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt meeting John Hay as a child, and the Roosevelt family’s first European trip.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Several artists identified as “Lawrence, Gainsborough, D. Teniers, Rubens, Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian, Duerer, Velasquez, Van Dyke, Reni”, and the friar Girolamo Savonarola as “S,” are being held in a holding pen labeled “Prohibitive Tariff on Art” at Ellis Island Immigration Station.
The year 1908 was a watershed year in American fine art. It was little recognized at the time — as cultural paradigm shifts seldom are — nor today, but the perceptual revolution attributed to 1913 and the landmark Armory Show in New York City sprouted from seeds planted in 1908. The Post-Impressionist and Expressionists known as “The Eight” and “The Ashcan School” collectively mounted an exhibition at New York’s Macbeth Gallery. Their work was in rebellion against academic painting, and in their ranks were several cartoonists, including William J. Glackens, whose brother Louis was on the staff of Puck.
The other major event in American art did not take place in America, but in Paris, under the auspices of the expatriate group calling itself the American Art Association of Paris. This large group of artists were proud of their American roots and influences. The exhibition ultimately excited more attention the United States, through reviews, than in Paris where the show’s iconoclasm (Impressionism, Cubism, etc) was already well know; when these schools entered the American consciousness at the Armory Show, there was a sensation.
President Roosevelt has received the translation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Thoughts on Art and Life, and says he is pleased that Lewis Einstein has started a library of beautifully made books.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-19
Charles S. Wilson, secretary of the embassy at Rome, encloses a copy of a letter from Domenico Grifone, requesting that the embassy forward Theodore Roosevelt his book on Leonardo da Vinci. They have sent the book by registered mail.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
Domenico Grifone asks Ambassador Wilson if he would present Theodore Roosevelt with the enclosed book about Leonardo da Vinci as a sign of homage and reverence for the former president.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-08