A Lithographic Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt by Fannie Soule Campbell

This rare framed lithographic portrait depicts Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States (1858-1919). This portrait was done by artist Fannie Soule Campbell, a New York artist active in California and New York. She is known for portrait painting of prominent persons, illustrations, miniatures. 

Fannie Soule Campbell was born in 1860 on a plantation in the Black Warrior Valley outside of Mobile, Alabama. She received her art education in New Orleans and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Campbell held a joint exhibition in February of 1908 with Mary Fancher Pettis in the parlors of the Oakland Club and displayed her portrait series of famous Californians. She was co-curator with the convention of the California Federation of Women’s Clubs and was an exhibitor at the show of California Women Artists at Oakland’s Ebell Club. Also in 1908 her portraits appeared in a rare Pacific Grove exhibition alongside the works of Mary DeNeale Morgan, William Adam, Anita Murray and O. V. Lange. From the very beginning Campbell was involved in the formation of the Berkeley Arts and Crafts Society which eventually became the Studio Club. She was elected that organization’s registrar and actively supported the creation of the Berkeley Art Association. She was a co-founder of The Associated Studios, the successor to the insolvent Berkeley School of Art. Campbell’s commissioned portraits of American celebrities became widely popular which included Theodore Roosevelt, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, President Taft and Mary Baker Eddy. Of this exhibit Lucy Jerome, art critic for the San Francisco Call, observed: “Miss Campbell seems to have seized the very soul of her subject and retained it in her studies.” Reference The Traditional Fine Art Association https://tfaoi.org/

Overall Size: 17.5" x 12"

Condition: Good Condition. Staining along bottom and bottom right corner. Not inspected outside of frame.