JAMES EARLE FRASER (1876-1953)

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JAMES EARLE FRASER (1876-1953)

A Bronze Portrait Bust of Elihu Root

inscribed 'J.E. FRASER 1926 ©' and 'KUNST F'DRY -N-Y-'
19in. (48.2cm.) high, on metal base

出版

A.E. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1965, p. 127

拍品專文

A lawyer and a statesman, Elihu Root (1845-1937) was a close friend and adviser to Theodore Roosevelt. Secretary of war under two Presidents and secretary of state under Theodore Roosevelt, Root received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1912 for his many contributuions to world peace.