The Civil War in Art : Teaching & Learning Through Chicago Collections

Sojourner Truth Abolitionist Visits President Lincoln

1963
Berry Horton
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, photographs, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, slavery, women

Harriet Tubman

c. 1963
R. Furan
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, paintings, portraits, post-war, slavery, women

Old Virginia Home

1864
David Gilmour Blythe
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, flag, freedom, genre scenes, home, landscapes, paintings, slavery

The Freedman

1862/63
John Quincy Adams Ward
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Classical, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, sculptures, slavery

John Brown

1939
John Steuart Curry
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, commemorations, freedom, portraits, post-war, prints, Slavery and Abolition, Westward Expansion

What Do I Want, John Henry?

November 1862
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, camp life, contrabands, freedom, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Frederick Douglass

1847/52
Samuel J. Miller
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, freedom, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

Antislavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

1845
Susan Torrey Merritt
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, children, family, flag, freedom, genre scenes, landscapes, paintings, politics, pre-war, Slavery and Abolition, women

John Jones

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, Chicago, freedom, Illinois, paintings, politics, portraits, Slavery and Abolition

Mary Richardson Jones

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, Chicago, freedom, Illinois, paintings, portraits, Slavery and Abolition, women

The Effects of the Proclamation

February 21, 1863
Unknown Soldier
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, children, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, family, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, Union

Resurrection of Henry Box Brown

1872
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, escape, freedom, illustrations, literature, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

The Harper's Ferry Insurrection [John Brown, Now Under Sentence of Death for Treason and Murder, at Charleston, VA.]

November 19, 1859
Martin M. Lawrence (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, battles, Causes of the War, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, photographs, portraits, prints, slavery, Slavery and Abolition

The Escaped Slave

July 2, 1864
T. B. Bishop (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, portraits, prints, slavery, Union

Eliza's Flight: A Scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, children, escape, family, freedom, illustrations, literature, pre-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, women

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