Lincoln Abraham Art!

[JPK Huson 1863]

That's crazy. I'm so glad he included Abe the woodsman. In the sea of Suits ( caps on purpose, have a thing about those things ), too easy to forget who some men were and of what they were capable before being stuffed into all that tailored fabric.

 

[John Hartwell]

Artist Kazuhiro Tsuji's Lincoln portrait is shockingly, "close-up perfect."

Kazu Hiro's website.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

Though this Lincoln portrait has its own recent thread, maybe it should be referenced here, too, to join all the other remarkable Lincolns in a thread that is surely a favorite with other members besides me.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

In 2013 historian Harold Holzer wrote about Lincoln's face for The Irish Times newspaper, "Abraham Lincoln: The Ugly Truth." Besides describing Lincoln's homely appearance, he discusses the way Lincoln's animated facial expressions could engage or mystify people. Among the President's contemporaries whom he quotes is Lincoln's secretary John Nicolay, who wrote that Lincoln's expressions, governed by his mercurial moods, gave him a quality impossible for artists to capture:

"Graphic art was powerless before a face that moved through a thousand delicate gradations of line and contour, light and shade, sparkle of the eye and curve of the lip, in the long gamut of expression from grave to gay, and back again from the rollicking jollity of laughter to that serious, faraway look that with prophetic intuitions beheld the awful panorama of war, and heard the cry of oppression and suffering. There are many pictures of Lincoln; there is no portrait of him."​

 

[John Hartwell]

As an addition to this outstanding thread of Lincoln iconography, I thought I'd link to another thread:

Lincoln on Postage Stamps | Currency, Stamps, & other Collectable Papers

Abraham Lincoln is second only to George Washington for the number of time he has appeared on U. S. postage stamps. He is by far the single most pictured American on postage stamps world wide. In this thread, I am going to post pictures from a variety of those literally hundreds of stamps...

civilwartalk.com

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

This remarkable article by Wendy Allen, the Gettysburg-based artist known for her evocative portraits of Lincoln, discusses another artist who was also fascinated with Lincoln's face: Pablo Picasso. Picasso, she writes, was a longtime collector of images of Lincoln who considered a particular Lincoln portrait by Mathew Brady an example of "true American elegance." The article was first published by The Gettysburg Times newspaper in April and is now posted online by the nonprofit Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania, where Ms. Allen is president of the board of directors. Enjoy!

 

[TallTallMan]

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

Images of Lincoln are everywhere! This one is on a sewing button. FYI, in case anyone is knitting a sweater for a Lincoln enthusiast, it's for sale on Etsy.

 

[LoyaltyOfDogs]

This remarkable project has mapped the location of hundreds of Lincoln sculptures around the world. "The Lincoln Sculptures Project: The Lincoln Sculptures Map," is compiled by the hosts of the "Images of Abraham Lincoln" Facebook page, where new views of all kinds of Lincoln images are posted regularly. Enjoy!