In this artwork, how is the Fate of original painting of the Painting elucidated?
The large life size version of the painting was destroyed in the 1893 Calumet Club fire in Chicago.  The existing smaller version, also by Healy, was rediscovered in 1922, after lying unnoticed in a family storeroom in Chicago for fifty years.  The acquisition of the painting by the Truman White House in 1947 was laden with contemporary significance, for another great conflict, World War II, had ended just two years earlier.
World War II Truman White House