ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865)

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U.S. President 1861-1865
Selections from the Archives of American Art

 

letter, 1981, from visionary artist Reverend Howard Finster (b. 1916) to Smithsonian curator Barbara Shissler (64807 bytes)
From the Howard Finster illustrated letter and cards collection, a letter, 1981, from the visionary artist Reverend Howard Finster (b. 1916) to Smithsonian curator Barbara Shissler. Finster writes about his trip to Washington, D.C., for the opening of the exhibition More Than Land or Sky: Art from Appalachia, at the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum) in 1981. The exhibition included works by Finster and his traveling companions from Georgia, Art Rosenbaum and Andy Nasisse. Finster illustrated his letter with a pantheon of notable figures -- Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, William Shakespeare, and Barbara Shissler.1 page, 25.2 x 21.1 cm. 


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