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

Contraband on Cairo Levee

1963
Sophie Wessel
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, camp life, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, contrabands, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, Illinois, paintings, post-war, slavery, soldiers, Union, women

Negro Troops Receive Instructions in the Field

1963
Allen Stringfellow
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, commemorations, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

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

Col. Robert G. Shaw dying at the Battle of Fort Wagner

1940
Martyl (Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf)
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, battles, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, death, emancipation, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

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

Harriet Tubman

1964
Shirley Firestone
DuSable Museum of African American History

Tags: African Americans, Causes of the War, Civil Rights Movement, commemorations, escape, freedom, paintings, portraits, post-war, slavery, Slavery and Abolition, women

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

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, 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

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

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

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Image Gallery (33 total)

54th Massachusetts Volunteers

And the Old Flag Never Touched the Ground

Contraband on Cairo Levee

Negro Troops Receive Instructions in the Field

Sojourner Truth Abolitionist Visits President Lincoln

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

Col. Robert G. Shaw dying at the Battle of Fort Wagner

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

Lincoln Douglas Debate at Alton, Illinois

Lincoln the Rail-splitter

Abraham Lincoln, Head of State (Seated Lincoln)

John Alexander Logan Monument

General Philip Henry Sheridan Monument

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (The Standing Lincoln)