Helen Boehm [SEP] medical condition
cancer and Parkinson's disease. She was 89 years old. She had no immediate survivors, though she and her husband had raised her nieces at an earlier time.
The Bird of Peace
The Bird of Peace is a porcelain statue of mute swans gifted by Richard Nixon to The People's Republic of China during his 1972 diplomatic visit to the country. The statue was designed and crafted by Helen Boehm and E. M. Boehm Studios.
History.
History Nixon and China.
The swans were originally commissioned by Nixon in 1969 to join his oval office collection of works by the late Edward Marshall Boehm. Helen Boehm, Edward's widow and operator of his business posthumously, was the organizer