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Anyone ever do Lincoln in macaroni? Serious question! The work in the first post made me wonder...
Thanks, diane, for posting this painting. Did a little looking around.....apparently, the artist is Jes W. Schlaikjer.This is an unusual painting of Lincoln in the bedroom of the Lincoln Cottage. Can't find the artist, though!
Thanks, diane, for posting this painting. Did a little looking around.....apparently, the artist is Jes W. Schlaikjer.
Jes W. Schlaikjer was an official artist for the U.S. government and well known painter of portraits and historic scenes in the mid 1900s. A great admirer of Abraham Lincoln, Schlaikjer determined to paint a historical scene of Lincoln toiling on the Emancipation Proclamation one evening in September 1862 at the Soldiers’ Home. While he painted this scene from his imagination, Schlaikjer was inspired to paint the scene after discovering Lincoln was known to have carried notes and jottings for the document to and from the Soldiers’ Home.
Read more:
http://lincolncottage.org/1950s-pai...g-emancipation-proclamation-at-soldiers-home/
I just noticed Abe's hat on the far nightstand.Thanks! That's a nice little piece. I'm with 7th - can't avoid those slippers but at the same time they seem to be fitting! Was surprised to see that the artist had gone to such lengths to be accurate - those slippers really were Abe's.
This is “The Boy Lincoln” by Eastman Johnson. It hangs in the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art.
Excellent work !Thanks for your interest. This is Lincolns 004 & 005 in my shop and 005 at the Lincoln Museum at Hodgenville, Ky.View attachment 47852 View attachment 47853