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

The Seceding South Carolina Delegation

December 22, 1860
Mathew Brady (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Confederate, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, prints, secession, Slavery and Abolition

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

Republican Standard Bearers Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

1860
Newton Briggs (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: Causes of the War, Illinois, Lincoln, photographs, politics, pre-war, prints, The Election of 1860 and Secession

Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

1860
Currier and Ives
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, politics, portraits, pre-war, prints, Union

Lincoln the Rail-splitter

Temporary version 1909, cast in bronze 1911
Charles J. Mulligan
Chicago Park District

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

Abraham Lincoln

1912 (modeled in 1912, cast after 1912)
Daniel Chester French
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

Daniel Webster

1853
Thomas Ball
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

America

1850/54
Hiram Powers
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

Campaign ribbon, A. Lincoln

1860
John Chester Buttre
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, politics, prints

General John A. Logan

1911
H. K. Saunders
Chicago Public Library

Tags: commemorations, generals, Illinois, paintings, politics, portraits, post-war, The Military Experience, Union

Soldier, Statesman, Patriot: John Alexander Logan

1908
Lorado Taft
Chicago Public Library

Tags: Chicago, commemorations, generals, Illinois, politics, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, Union

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

Stephen Arnold Douglas

c. 1861
Louis O. Lussier
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Causes of the War, Chicago, Illinois, paintings, politics, portraits, Union, Westward Expansion

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