1904 letter launchin America's Saint-Gaudens' 1907 coinage redesign to be auctioned
Famed Teddy Roosevelt letter to
Treasury Secretary Shaw, suggesting Saint-Gaudens be hired to address our coinage’s “atrocious hideousness,” had been misplaced for more than a century and presumed destroyed
The letter reads:
“My dear Secretary Shaw:
“I think our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness. Would it be possible, without asking permission of Congress, to employ a man like Saint-Gaudens to give us a coinage that would have some beauty?
“Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Teddy Roosevelt”
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56466#.UACRspFSREM
Famed Teddy Roosevelt letter to
Treasury Secretary Shaw, suggesting Saint-Gaudens be hired to address our coinage’s “atrocious hideousness,” had been misplaced for more than a century and presumed destroyed
The letter reads:
“My dear Secretary Shaw:
“I think our coinage is artistically of atrocious hideousness. Would it be possible, without asking permission of Congress, to employ a man like Saint-Gaudens to give us a coinage that would have some beauty?
“Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Teddy Roosevelt”
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56466#.UACRspFSREM
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