This oil on canvas portrait of President Warren G. Harding was created by Edmund Hodgson Smart in 1923. Smart was an influential English painter who also painted portraits of other prominent officials, including Marshall Foch and Gen. John Pershing. Harding served as a United States Senator from Ohio from 1915 to 1921 prior to becoming president. He served from March 4, 1921 until his death on August 2, 1923.