Franklin Roosevelt: Signed Original Pencil Drawing, ...

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FDR drawing in the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" style by Paul Frehm.

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A fine and rare FDR item, an original pencil drawing by acclaimed Ripley's Believe It or Not artist Paul Frehm, executed on light brown stock and measuring 9 x 12." The lithographic drawing depicts a beaming FDR above a group of people from the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, which FDR founded as the major treatment facility for poliomyelitis in the Nation in Warm Springs, Georgia. The lithograph is boldly signed by FDR at lower right blank margin, and also boldly signed by the artist Paul Frehm in white pencil within the lithographic drawing. Paul Frehm (1904-1986) was an internationally known syndicated cartoonist who drew Ripley's Believe It or No" from 1949 to 1978, which appeared in over 285 newspapers worldwide. Prior to his success with Ripley's, Frehm covered the Lindbergh kidnapping trial of Bruno Hauptmann as an official courtroom sketch artist. A fabulous original signed lithographic drawing by both FDR and Frehm of a beaming FDR at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.