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President Roosevelt sends a list of nominations for the Council of Fine Arts and encloses a copy of the executive order he issued to create such a council.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-18
President Roosevelt agrees with the American Institute of Architects’s suggestion to create a Council of Fine Arts to advise the government in matters relating to architecture, monuments, and the arts. He instructs the American Institute of Architects to compose a list of thirty men from around the country to serve as members of the Council, and expects that they will advocate for legislation to make the Council permanent. President Roosevelt also requests that the Council immediately report and advise on the creation of the Lincoln Memorial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-11
President Roosevelt describes his appreciation of the artist Frederic Remington to Arthur W. Little. Roosevelt appreciates Remington’s depiction of a “vanishing type of American life,” notably the soldiers, cowboys, ranchers, and Native Americans of the American West. Roosevelt also remarks on Remington’s mastery of not only sculpture but also painting and literature.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-17
President Roosevelt lauds William T. Evans for donating a collection of paintings by American artists to the National Gallery of Art. Roosevelt hopes that is collection, along with collections endowed by Charles Lang Freer and Harriet Lane Johnston, will persuade Congress to provide an appropriate building for its housing and display.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-06
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are delighted by the statuette Frederick William MacMonnies made of Roosevelt. The president says he has always been grateful that MacMonnies and August Saint-Gaudens existed, “for it is a big asset on the nation’s credit side that it should have produced you both.” The president shares MacMonnies’s views of painter Marcus Simon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-05
Sergei Witte writes a letter of introduction to President Roosevelt for the painter Aleksandr Alekseevich Borisov. Borisov has had success with exhibitions in Europe and is hoping to have similar success in America. He would like to start off his visit to America by visiting Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-09
John Singer Sargent, the noted American painter, discusses payment for a completed portrait of the President.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-06
Ambassador Meyer presented President Roosevelt’s photographs to the Duke of Aosta, who was very interested in the Rough Riders. Meyer hopes that arbitration can bring the Anthracite Coal Strike to a satisfactory conclusion and is sorry to hear that the completion of the White House has been delayed due a strike by the painters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-15