Collection The First Ladies
Biographies & Portraits
Claudia Johnson Portrait
- Artist
- Elizabeth Shoumatoff
- Date of Work
- 1968
- Medium
- Watercolor Study
- Credit
- White House Collection/White House Historical Association
Claudia Johnson Portrait
Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, the watercolor study was painted in 1968.
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