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

Michigan Avenue from the Lake

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, city, Illinois, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront

Tremont House

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, children, city, family, flag, home, Illinois, politics, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront, women

General Grant at Fort Donelson

c. 1870-1875
Paul D. Philippoteaux
Chicago History Museum

Tags: African Americans, camp life, commemorations, Confederate, flag, generals, health, paintings, post-war, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Battle of Fredericksburg

1888
Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: battles, commemorations, death, generals, health, post-war, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

The Peacemakers

1868
George P. A. Healy
Chicago History Museum

Tags: commemorations, generals, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, portraits, post-war, soldiers, 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

Funeral procession outside Cook County Court House, May 1, 1865

1865
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, Chicago, city, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, photographs, post-war, 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

Life mask and hands of Lincoln

1886
Leonard Wells Volk
Chicago History Museum

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

Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., April 10, 1865

1865
Alexander Gardner
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, photographs, portraits, post-war, Union

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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