Mrs Abraham Lincoln 1864 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame It is the firmament rendered

It is the firmament rendered as both cathedral and calculation

1881 — a presidential portrait of the New York customs man elevated by Garfield's bullet

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 — a portrait fixed at the war's grimmest hinge

Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 — a posthumous portrait of the Supreme Court Justice whose dissent in Dred Scott broke ranks and whose name was thereafter spoken with the weight of a man who chose conscience over comity

General John Alexander Logan 1874 — the Illinois volunteer turned senator rendered in the sober dignity of a postwar portrait

Mrs Abraham Lincoln 1864 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame It is the firmament renderedMrs Abraham Lincoln 1864 Mary Todd photographed in the war's penultimate year, gowned and composed for the camera even as her husband's republic bled toward Appomattox. The portrait carries the strange double weight of a First Lady at her zenith and a widow not yet aware she is one. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and