Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Lee Roosevelt)

Copied Moses Wainer Dykaar, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Lee Roosevelt), 1929, marble, 2519 588 14 in. (63.549.921.0 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of David E. Dykaar, 1965.15.2
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Artwork Details

Title
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Lee Roosevelt)
Date
1929
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
2519 588 14 in. (63.549.921.0 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of David E. Dykaar
Mediums
Mediums Description
marble
Classifications
Subjects
  • Portrait female — Longworth, Nicholas, Mrs. — bust
  • Portrait female — Roosevelt, Alice Lee — bust
Object Number
1965.15.2

Artwork Description

Alice Roosevelt was the eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. She was a wild teenager, smoking in public, traveling without a chaperone, and interrupting meetings, and her father once remarked, “I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.” She married Nicholas Longworth, representative from Cincinnati, in 1906, and was actively involved in politics. She was known for her cutting remarks and always had something to say about presidents past and present, including Calvin Coolidge, who “looked as if he had been weaned on a pickle,” and William H. Taft, whom she considered “great in girth . . . but great in nothing else.”