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

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

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

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

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

1893
John M. Copley
The Newberry Library

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, health, Illinois, illustrations, literature, post-war, prison, soldiers, The Military Experience, The Northern Homefront, Union

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

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

1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, escape, Illinois, photographs, portraits, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

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

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

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

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

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

1891
Louis T. Rebisso
Chicago Park District

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

c. 1945
Charles Keck
Chicago Park District

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

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

Tags: death, health, home, Illinois, illustrations, literature, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women