A federal judge has made a decision in a dispute between relatives of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s press secretary over ownership of four Norman Rockwell drawings that hung for decades in the White House.
The drawings — titled “So You Want to See the President!” — show a range of figures, including a Scottish military officer, a beauty pageant winner and a U.S. senator, all waiting at the White House for an audience with Roosevelt.
Rockwell gave the originals of the drawings, which were published in The Saturday Evening Post, to the president’s press secretary, Stephen T. Early.
One drawing depicts Early with a pipe clenched between his teeth, facing a clutch of reporters.
The court case focused on who in the family had inherited the drawings from Early, with some relatives saying that they had been unaware until recently that the works had been on loan to the White House since 1978.
Persons:
Franklin D, Norman Rockwell, ”, Roosevelt, Rockwell, Stephen T
Organizations:
Scottish, White House, House
Locations:
U.S