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

Lincoln Speaks to Freedmen on the Steps of the Capital at Richmond

1963
Gus Nall
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, children, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, Confederate, emancipation, family, freedom, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, Remembering the War, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

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

General Philip Henry Sheridan Monument

1923
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum
Chicago Park District

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

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

1891
Louis T. Rebisso
Chicago Park District

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

Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley

1887
George Cope
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: commemorations, paintings, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union

Our Watering Places—The Empty Sleeve at Newport

1865
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, post-war, prints, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union, women

Love's Melancholy

1866
Constant Mayer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: death, family, home, landscapes, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, women

Hunter Mountain, Twilight

1866
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: death, Hudson River School, landscapes, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War

The Council of War

c. 1873-1895
John Rogers
Chicago Public Library

Tags: commemorations, generals, Lincoln portraits, portraits, post-war, Remembering the War, sculptures, 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

The Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln

1868
Alonzo Chappel
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, death, family, Lincoln portraits, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union, women

Lincoln's Drive Through Richmond

1866
Dennis Malone Carter
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, city, commemorations, family, flag, freedom, Lincoln, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union

In Memory of Abraham Lincoln: The Reward of the Just

1865
D. T. Wiest
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, Classical, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, mourning, post-war, prints, Remembering the War

The Home of the Red, White and Blue

c. 1867-1868
Lilly Martin Spencer
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: charity, children, family, flag, genre scenes, health, home, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, soldiers, women

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