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

54th Massachusetts Volunteers

c. 1963
Jennie Scott Washington
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, death, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, paintings, post-war, soldiers, Union

And the Old Flag Never Touched the Ground

1963
Ramon B. Price
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, flag, freedom, paintings, post-war, soldiers, Union

Charge of the Third Brigade, First Division, Sixteenth Corps, at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, December 15, 1864

January 14, 1865
George H. Ellsbury
The Newberry Library

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, flag, generals, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Lincoln Douglas Debate at Alton, Illinois

1963
William Sylvester Carter
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: Causes of the War, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, paintings, politics, portraits, post-war, slavery, Westward Expansion

Camp Douglas

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, flag, home, Illinois, paintings, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

Abraham Lincoln, Head of State (Seated Lincoln)

Cast 1908, installed 1926
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

John Alexander Logan Monument

1897
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, generals, Illinois, monuments, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, soldiers, Union

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (The Standing Lincoln)

1887
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Chicago Park District

Tags: Chicago, Classical, commemorations, flag, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

A Woman in Battle: Michigan Bridget Carrying the Flag

1887
Felix Octavius Carr Darley (draftsman)
John J. Cade (engraver)
The Newberry Library

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, flag, illustrations, literature, portraits, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

Abraham Lincoln

1916 (Modeled in 1916, cast after 1916)
Daniel Chester French
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: Classical, commemorations, flag, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, monuments, portraits, post-war, sculptures, Union

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

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

America

1850/54
Hiram Powers
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: Causes of the War, Classical, flag, politics, pre-war, sculptures, Westward Expansion, women

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor

1861
Currier and Ives
Chicago History Museum

Tags: battles, Causes of the War, Confederate, flag, prints, secession, soldiers, The Election of 1860 and Secession, Union

Main Building of the Great North Western Sanitary Fair, Chicago

1865
Louis Kurz, Lithographer: Baker & Co.
Chicago History Museum

Tags: charity, Chicago, children, city, family, flag, health, Illinois, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

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