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Lot Essay
Olin Dows was an American artist, friend and Hudson River neighbor of the Roosevelt Family. He was a Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the American Federation of the Arts and was named Head of the Treasury Relief Art Project in 1935, active in New Deal art projects. In 1939 he painted the Rhinebeck, New York post office murals, and in 1941 painted the Hyde Park post office murals. In 1949, Dows wrote and illustrated Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park, Drawings and Text, for which the present watercolor was an original drawing.
Eleanor Roosevelt's Stone Cottage was completed in the summer of 1925. Henry Toombs, the architect from Atlanta, Georgia who had built the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia and Franklin D. Roosevelt worked together as an architectural team and Val Kill was designed in the Dutch tradition of the Hudson Valley.
Eleanor Roosevelt's Stone Cottage was completed in the summer of 1925. Henry Toombs, the architect from Atlanta, Georgia who had built the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia and Franklin D. Roosevelt worked together as an architectural team and Val Kill was designed in the Dutch tradition of the Hudson Valley.