{"id":36,"date":"2007-06-06T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-06-06T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T17:44:01","slug":"fdr-by-ben-solowey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/archive\/fdr-by-ben-solowey\/","title":{"rendered":"FDR by Ben Solowey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-admin\/upload.php?style=inline&amp;tab=browse-all&amp;post_id=-1181151012&amp;ID=35&amp;action=view&amp;paged\" id=\"file-link-35\" title=\"FDR on Liberty Cover\" class=\"file-link image\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/fdrcover.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/fdrcover.jpg\" title=\"FDR on Liberty Cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/fdrcover.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"FDR on Liberty Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently on Ebay, a copy of a December 1937 <em>Liberty<\/em> magazine was offered for sale. We received a number of calls and emails about it, as the cover features a full color reproduction of an oil portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt by Ben. As far it is known, this is the only magazine cover Ben painted in his seven-decade career.<\/p>\n<p>Ben and Rae both admired Roosevelt and the work of his administration. Although Ben never took part in any WPA programs, he recognized their value.<\/p>\n<p>We do have this original painting in the Studio&#8217;s collection. An unrelated charcoal portrait of FDR is in a private collection.<\/p>\n<p>In the Main Studio during our current exhibition, <em>ON THE ROAD: Ben Solowey&#8217;s American Landscapes<\/em>, there is a wonderful cont\u00c3\u00a9 crayon portrait of John F. Kennedy that drew out of admiration for late president .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently on Ebay, a copy of a December 1937 Liberty magazine was offered for sale. We received a number of calls and emails about it, as the cover features a full color reproduction of an oil portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt by Ben. As far it is known, this is the only magazine cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solowey.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}