This 29"x41" Watercolor shows the U.S Capitol as seen from the Treasury Plaza in the final days of the Roosevelt Administration. The Capitol of this great nation is in the grip of election fever. Roosevelt and the future President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Howard Taft were good friends and Taft was fully supported by Roosevelt. It was expected that Taft would carry through with the populism of Teddy, but the failure of Tart to do so caused a rift in the Republican party. Roosevelt in the next election founded the Bullmoose Party splitting the vote and handing victory to Woodrow Wilson. The cable cars in the painting were not true cable cars, but were electriclaly powered street cars with the electric cable underground with the arm extending through a slot between the tracks instead of up to an overhead cable. My assistant and second unit photographer for this painting was Jerry Brubaker a friend, former classmate and fellow French hornist from the Eastman School of Music. Jerry is retired from the Navy Band in Washington D.C. where he served as the Band's head arranger .