85: FRANCES WEBB ROOSEVELT (1917-1995) UNION STATION KC

A circa 1940 oil on canvas painting by Mrs. Quentin Roosevelt, widow of the grandson of president Theodore Roosevelt. Miss Frances Webb married Quentin Roosevelt on April 20, 1944 whilst both were in uniform: she a Red Cross worker and he a highly decorated veteran of the Sicilian and Tunisian campaigns of World War II. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Watt Webb Jr. of 5341 Wyandotte, Kansas City, Missouri. Watt Webb Sr. founded Missouri Savings Bank and Trust in 1891. It would later become Missouri Bank. The elder Webbs were originally from Iowa and at some point built a castle at 816 Truman Blvd in Kansas City.
Mrs. Roosevelt was a native of Kansas City Missouri and graduated from Smith College in 1939. She married Quentin in England in April 1944, two months before her husband, an army captain, participated in the D-Day invasion. During the war, As a Red Cross worker, she drew pictures for soldiers on postcards which they later sent home to their families. After the war, the family moved to Shanghai and lived there until Quentin Roosevelt's death in a plane crash near Hong Kong in 1948. Mrs. Roosevelt then moved with her children to the Roosevelt estate at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay Long Island. There she worked as a portrait artist and taught art at C. W. Post College in Brookville Long Island. She also worked as a court room sketch artist for several newspapers and covered the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, the American diplomat accused of spying.
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Very good original condition.
$400 - $600