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The Secret Garden by Peter Waddell

The Secret Garden by Peter Waddell

Artist
Peter Waddell
Medium
Oil
Type
Historical Depiction
Credit
The White House Historical Association

The Secret Garden by Peter Waddell

Last Days of an Exotic World, 1902. Peter Waddell, The Secret Garden, oil on canvas, 40 x 30.

When President Theodore Roosevelt moved into the White House he brought his large family and their many pets, including a macaw named Eli Yale and a cat, Tom Quartz. His son Kermit would one day explore the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, a much bigger jungle than those in the White House greenhouses, torn down in 1902 to build an office annex that evolved into the West Wing.

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