Irish regiment. , a caricature of lincoln writing the emancipation proclamation, the lincoln family by Francis Bicknell carpenter, victor nehligs painting, an episode of war, and some prison art. Lets look at the relationship between war and art, harold. Does war stimulate arts in america, and did art change the romantic image of war . Harold i think both. Good evening. Thanks for having me back. I think the great emphasis of american painting to the civil war was probably landscape painting. Portrait caricatures took on a martial air with all the military heroes who were portrayed. But it sent many to the field, like the soldier artists. Artists like Winslow Homer went to the field to do sketches for the weekly newspapers and evolved into very successful artists. But in terms of what it did to landscaping, it totally revolutionized the romantic attitude artists had toward this socalled american eden, the pristine landscape of the americas. The landscape was ravaged by gunfire, and the land was stained by blood. So it really changed the way this Great American art form was recorded during and after the war. Of course, the war kept artists busy for many years after the war, on commissions from military lodges, armories, and the united daughters of the confederacy and all these groups patrons that kept clamoring for pictures and statues. Valerie statues, as we know. Lets start with our first object or painting, and that is of the evening, and that is return of the 69th irish regiment. It was painted in 1862. You called this huge painting, seven by 11 feet, a masterpiece of 19th century public relations. Why . Harold well, it made great heroes of a military unit that fought pretty well, but in the end, unsuccessfully. , as did all the union troops of the battle of bull run. This was important for morale because it was the irish brigade of new york, a unit that the named the fighters of the 69th. But it was very important to the Union War Effort for germanamericans and irishamericans who had different political points of view were both recruited and both raised their own regiments. This one went off very early in the war in the spring of 1861, down to virginia, established itself in arlington heights, where they built fortifications for washington. It was very irish. The colonel, corcoran, had a minister, a catholic priest, sprinkle holy water on the first annon named in his honor. They marched on very proudly into war. Corcoran was irish born, 33 years old, a member of the finian brotherhood. Valerie we have a detail of corcoran. Harold it will not be him, so we should not get to it yet. Valerie oh, ok. [laughter] harold i should point out, this fellow was not corcoran. Because at the battle of bull run itself, where our irish regiment fought very bravely, he corcoran was captured by the confederates and was in prison for 40 years. When he was finally released, Abraham Lincoln gave him and other officers who had been imprisoned a state dinner in the white house. They were only for 90 days. Valerie he was there for a whole year in prison. Harold he was an exception. But after 90 days, the fighting 69th fought in the war. They came back, at least this back in a ship to battery park, and this is what they seemed to think. The fellow waving his hat was corcorans successor. Here he is getting a heroes a heros welcome. These portraits were painted of individually recognized people in the irishamerican community. Valerie the 69th saw combat in the battle of bull run in 1861 as part of a brigade that was actually commanded by william t. Sherman. What happened to them there . Well, they did ok. They did well. They were brave. But the battle of bull run was won by the union in the morning. The only problem was the afternoon came after the morning and the confederates charged back and won the day. So it was a huge embarrassment, especially when these guys did no more than participate in what turned out to be a real disaster. Valerie but they did receive quite an unexpected welcome when they arrived a week later. In manhattan a week later. What sort of things does louis lange depict in the painting . Harold you can see the crowd surging. Here, this is my favorite detail. This is an image of a newsboy selling, engraving the lithographs of colonel corcoran, who was back suffering in a prison camp. So he was a particular hero. But they came back and the brigade was smart enough and wealthy enough to commission this, as you point out humongous , painting. Valerie huge. Harold it was displayed. It was intended for their armory. After this scene, they all marched to the street on the Lower East Side and stacked their arms. We dont know where this ended up, but it had a great display at the gallery on 9th avenue. It won rave reviews from the critics. So it was pretty famous in its day. Valerie but it ultimately became a bit of an artistic curiosity. Why . Harold two years after this scene, the city erupted in draft riots, as we discussed in an earlier program, and so many irish and irishamericans participated that it became kind of politically incorrect to celebrate the early irishamerican contributions to the Union War Effort. This painting just deteriorated. Thank goodness louis lange donated it to the Historical Society 25 years after this scene. The great thing is that when it was finally discovered in storage, it was restored magnificently in time for the exhibition the civil war in 50 objects. Valerie absolutely. It was found in tatters. To pull itt together to make one gorgeous unit. You can come see it when we reopen. Lets move now to our next painting object, and that is the lincoln family in 1861 by Francis Bicknell carpenter. This is in blackandwhite, so it had a photographic quality to it, even though it is oil and canvas. But there were no photographs of the lincoln family all together. Why . Harold we really dont know, but mary lincoln did not like to be photographed with her husband. She was so much shorter and did she thought she would look the dolllike and did not like the comparison between them. Valerie she was a little bit fatter, too. [laughter] harold not in this picture, and i will explain that. This is a riff on the famous photograph. As you say, this was painted in black and white for a very simple reason, because it was to serve as a model for popular print. Carpenter did not bother to add color. Because it would not have been reproduced. Valerie it is interesting because there is such public days and actually in the last century of artistic depictions of the first family, but not in this time and place. That only sort of became more the thing after lincolns assassination. But in any case, that is where this painting comes in. Tell us more about this and the artist. Harold carpenter was from upstate new york. Homer, new york, near syracuse. He had a gallery in new york city. He decided he wanted to paint the First Reading of the emancipation proclamation before the cabinet, and he got letters of introduction. He went to the white house. Pretty open season. Lincoln liked him. He let him work there for six months. But while he was there, he made sketches of the family and he commissioned the famous photograph of lincoln looking at this photograph album that looked very much like a bible, and no one ever corrected that impression. In 1865, lincoln of course dies. Carpenter is still working on his emancipation engraving. The painting is done. And he is pretty well known. So he goes to a new york engraver, j. C. Derby, and he works with another publisher to do a lincoln family. It cost 500. A pretty good feet. Fee. But he decides to write to mary lincoln, who is his buddy at this point. She suggests all the other models, a picture of robert, a who was then at harvard a , picture of willie, who died in 1862. He is the middle Child Holding the sword. That is why it is very specific, the family of 1961. Like carpenter suggested of mary, she suggested one that was painted before she gained weight. She is the one who chose this very sort of flattering image. It was produced as the popular print of the lincoln family. Not only were they never photographed together, they were seldom together. Robert was at harvard, at harvard law. He wrote he never had 10 minutes alone with his father during the entire war. Willie died 11 months into the presidency. And mary said she was fortunate if lincoln came to the bedroom to talk about the events of the day at 11 00 at night. The civil war drove them apart. It did not bring them together. This picture was meant to say they were together, to reassure the public that lincoln had a happy and United Family life. Valerie the painter really got the credit he deserved for knitting that picture together. Harold the ultimate indignity was that he did get 500 for it, but he claimed he only sold the intellectual property. He still owned the physical canvas. However, the studio went bankrupt eventually and sold it to a new yorker named warren crane. Carpenter was not happy. Crane had him come to his house and see it, but he did not return it, and it was crane who gave it to the Historical Society years later. He said he was going to add color. That was his ploy to get it back. But he didnt, and he didnt. Valerie [laughter] lets move on to our next artistic work. This is an etching by adalbert johann volck of the emancipation proclamation in 1863. We are in the middle of the second year of the civil war. It is getting difficult for the confederacy to circulate artwork of battlefield triumphs. That is for one practical reason. Most of the ablebodied artists were fighting in the war. As soldiers. Actually, this is an interesting thing to contemplate right now as cultural monuments to the confederacy are being pulled down. There were none that were done at the time of the civil war, no artistic works. Tell us about the artist who created this etching. Harold he is also a hyphenated american. Born in bavaria. Unlike most of the germans who came to the United States after the revolutions of 1848 failed in europe, he was an archconservative and a racist. Not an antislavery man. He settled in baltimore, and the surroundings and the environment make the man, in a way. He was a dentist by trade and was obviously a very gifted draftsman. And he made these series of antiunion, proconfederate etchings throughout the civil war and published them secretly with a fake london copyright. Baltimore was occupied quite early in the war by the union, and artists like him, printmakers were shut down who sympathized with the confederacy. So he was operating in total secret. He was not influential at the time, but venomous towards lincoln. Look at this. Portrayedpenter, who lincoln almost as a divine presence, this lincoln is writing the emancipation proclamation from an inkwell that is held by satan, and he has his foot on the holy bible to do it. Look at the devils head at the cloves, the devils , liquor on thele cabinet. If he wasnt influenced by the devil, he had to be drunk. There is a picture of john brown, so john brown is the evil influence over lincoln. There is a painting of a slave rebellion in haiti. Overn unusual figure lincoln is a statuette of columbia, a symbol of the country. Pulled over his head is the kind of scottish tam lincoln allegedly wore to escape notice to baltimore. It is an inside joke. Not a favorable proclamation. Valerie not at all. This is part of a series called gadgets from the civil war in america. Some of the other images in that series also depict something fake newsy, i think, in a way. Harold yeah. Cave life in vicksburg. I think we showed that one. Southern women melting church bells to make cannons for their holy cause. Lots of antilincoln stuff. Lincoln sneaking into baltimore. Valerie it is interesting you should mention lincoln and volck, because apparently he had a change of heart after lincolns assassination. Or did he . Harold so he said. He said he always regretted he was mean to that lovely man. He painted. He went on to paint, but his paintings were of robert e. Lee, and lee mourning stonewall jackson. He did confederate inspired paintings. He never did a lincoln painting that showed any kind of sense of having regretted what he did. Valerie yeah. Lets move on to our next image. This is also a large painting, not quite as large as return of the 69th. This is called an episode of war the calvary charge of lt. Henry hidden by an artist named victor nehlig. Harold we called it a Hidden Treasure in the book. I know that is kind of a pun i have to keep apologizing for. Valerie that is cute. [laughter] but anyway, it is a dramatic scene. We dont want to minimize it. Henry was a useful, wellconnected new yorker. Tell us a bit about him and this particular episode of war. Harold he was a very young man, 23 years old when he joined company h of the first new york cavalry. Yes, there were calvary units in from new york. A brave young guy. Say hisis i should family were very wealthy shipbuilders. The webb family. He was new york mercantile royalty, to be sure. He led his men into virginia, and one day at a place called sangster station, he saw an unguarded exposed flank of general Joe Johnstons confederate army, and he let his d his cavalry and broke through and created havoc and really pushed them back. Unfortunately in the midst of the charge, and that is what this scene is supposed to head is not held upright, and that is because the has just been shot through the neck and died. Valerie it is kind of remarkable. It does not diminish the dramatic nature of the canvas, but it was a relatively insecure obscure incident even in its own time. Why was it obscure . Harold first of all this little , skirmish was not a major battle. Second of all, there were two major events going on the same day, the merrimack battle and the battle of pea ridge in the west. Which were much more important and more well covered by the media. This could have led to a battle, but johnsons army just waited ed and just waited for another day. As you mentioned when we started, the family was wealthy. They wanted to remember their relatives. The original title of this painting was much more dramatic. The gallant charge of lieutenant harry hidden. I dont know why they changed it to an episode of war. It was commissioned by the family and displayed in regiments for years. You know he is considered i this, because this is 1862, he is considered the first Union Cavalry officer to die during the war. I am not sure that is possible, but we will go with it for now. If we could think back to colonel corcoran again. It is ok to make this point now. He got out of prison, he recovered, he went back into the service, and ignominiously he was killed when his horse fell on him. What the battle of bull run could not due to colonel corcoran. I do not like horses. I know lots of people do. They petrify me. So all power to henry hidden for doing all this. Valerie yes, that is henry hiddens claim to fame, the first Union Cavalry officer killed in action. Sort of like our guy last week. Harold yes. [laughter] valerie he gets it. Harold he gets the honor. Valerie you do mention this painting has a new light on the harsh realities of the war. What are some of the details that stand out for you . Harold well, the first images of war were pretty bucolic, even though the landscape is turning red, as others have put it. But this is really handtohand combat. It is swords, bayonets, rifles, confusion. It is trees shorn of leaves. It is not romantic at all. It is tough, and it is scary. Youve got these foreignborn artists who are really revising the idea of war. So far, i think we have done all except for carpenter, they are all foreignborn artists. Of course, america was kind of speaking with a foreign accent at the time anyway. They say 40 of the union army spoke with some kind of a foreign accent, which is remarkable. Valerie it is remarkable. We are down to our last five of five artworks or artistic impressions of war. This is a Point Lookout sketch. Watercolor drawings by john jacob omenhausser. During the four years of the civil war, men were taken prisoner. A majority of these were in prison for the duration of the war. For those men who were Strong Enough to endure the starvation and exposure, sickness, and allaround hellish circumstances, we have learned that the creativity helped them survive. The artist of these sketches was one such soldier. Tell us a bit about him. We know is i am assuming he was foreignborn, but certainly germanamerican in some way. He was a folk artist and a candy maker before the war. A confectionery, he was called. Austrian by descent, settled in baltimore, got up early and saw some action in the first regiment. He survived in the war for some time, but it caught up with him in 1864 and he was captured at petersburg and imprisoned at a hot and steamy camp on the southern shore of maryland called Point Lookout, where at its peak 20,000 men were kept in pretty tough circumstances in 23 acres. It was not really as crowded as andersonville or elmira, but a pretty tough situation. By the way, prisoners were exchanged at the beginning of the war, but by 1864, general grant said no more exchanges because imprisoned soldiers hurt the confederate side more than ours because we can always replenish. But omenhausser was gifted. I think he probably sold some of these to fellow prisoners because we have evidence some of them wrote home saying there is a very clever artist here. He is a folk artist at best. He was captured by a black soldier, by the way. What makes this piece remarkable is he shows africanamerican soldiers guarding him, which for a southerner must have been a deep kind of humiliation, which we know is nice retribution. Valerie i think we actually have that in the next slide. It is interesting because he painted so many artworks and it is such a huge body of work that it was thought of the work of more than one person, but it seems to just be his. At the new york Historical Society, the Art Collection has a portfolio for watercolors. Here, just kind of a selection of them. What did they depict in general . There are so many. Harold well, it depicts an africanamerican guard, selling extras to a prisoner, maybe a potato or an extra ration. On the left, it shows a group of ladies who were touring the camp as if it was a tourist attraction, and you have a ly bare uninhibited chested, washing his shirt which is bug invested, and he is saying to the ladies, why is this camp so lousy . Which i think even then had a double meaning. They all had voice boxes and minstrel dialect for the africanamericans. As this soldier said, the bottom rail is on top now, which is about the summation of his existence. The africanamerican guards are in control. Society is turned upside down for him. And he was in prison until not only was he in prison until the end of the war, he was in prison until two months after the war. But i dont think his mind was expanded by the experience. Valerie certainly artistic impressions of the experience, his artistic expressions, do endure, and that is a wonderful thing. We are ready for our q a. We see a slide of all of our objects together again. Did lincoln ever see the volck etching, and if so, what was his reaction . Harold excellent question. We have no idea. I would suspect not. I would suspect not. Although many claims have been made about the popularity of volck in his time, i never believed it. I think there was such strict censorship in baltimore and until the end of the war that his works would not have circulated. Although the newyork Historical Society copy has an early acquisition date, as i recall. He saw plenty of nasty caricatures in his day, but no evidence he saw volcks. Valerie next question, one of our viewers this evening believes lincolns foot is on the constitution. Is that correct . Harold no, it really is the bible. He helps us by saying bible. Valerie good. You would know the answer to this better than i. How many other paintings and prints of the civil war are there in the societys collection . Harold youre putting this on me now . Valerie [laughter] you looked through hundreds. Harold there are certainly dozens and dozens, and we are going to see a nice mix next week, which we were saving for our grant focused penultimate section. Some nice military portraits and some nice prewar paintings, including a lovely painting of an africanamerican man thinking of emancipation. And paintings that are prewar but very important in depicting slavery in washington, d. C. Before the war. It is a great collection. And i worked in the storerooms. Valerie exactly. And in the print room alone, there are so many prints to choose from. And in duplicate, triplicate, sometimes of the same image. I would put it in the hundreds. Harold with the print collection and photographs, definitely. Valerie was lincoln mistrustful of the irish 69th since they were democrats . Harold no, certainly not at the beginning. He worked very hard to get ethnic regiments and ethnic generals. Corcoran was the poster boy for irish patriotism. When things began to get a little rough was in terms of his relationship with the irishamerican community and irishamerican voters. It is when the emancipation proclamation was issued and the rush for the war expanded from just preserving the union to eradicating slavery as well. Not that lincoln had illusions that he had political supporters in the irish community. He knew that the irish were democrats. But in 1861, he did not want a fight against secession to be a republican war only. So he was willing to accept all parties, all ethnicities in service. Valerie next question. I know the answer to this one. You said the return of the 69th was exhibited at a gallery on 9th avenue. It was actually 9th street, right . Harold 9th street, excuse me. Valerie that is because the viewer says the far east side of manhattan was a wasteland, which it was. Harold good correction. Thank you. Valerie [laughter] ok. So there was no art gallery over there. I was surprised to hear it was on 9th street, actually. Harold it was the old gallery. I was thinking 9th avenue because of all the chelsea art galleries. Valerie [laughter] exactly. Were painting presentations different in the 19th century . Harold painting presentations . Valerie presentations. I am wondering what that meant. Harold i am not sure what that means. I am sure there were unveilings, if we take it the literal sense. They were big deals. There was much fanfare attended the unveiling of paintings. Much of the civil war statuary, except for lincoln statuary, was done in 1890 on when there was enough money in the south to collect for those enormous commissions. So painting unveilings were big. There were a lot of veterans who like having those reminders around, and there were lots of veterans, and even robert e. Lee, who thought there should not be any civil war paintings or art of any kind. He just wanted there to be no visual record that glorified war, which is interesting when we think about the people who are insisting that his statues endure. Valerie what if any was the relationship between the irish 69th and the draft rioters . Harold the troops that were drawn from the ranks of the army of the potomac at gettysburg, mostly those who were fairly well, rested and had not been engaged in much of the battle, where the ones who were brought back to quell the riots. I have not checked into the psychology or the response of the veterans or those serving in the 69th and their attitudes toward the draft riots. I would suspect they were repelled by them because they were a proud and organized brigade and still fighting for the union. Valerie although as we noted in that episode, many of the draft rioters were irish. So there is that connection, too. Harold they were the irish who did not want to enlist. Valerie next question, how did so many paintings from the civil war era survive . Harold well, they were preserved by their original painters. Mostly union leagues, armories, regimental headquarters, clubhouses, the united daughters of the confederacy, the sons of confederate veterans. All of these organizations that champion these mementos and pay for them and held their meetings in front of them. For those of you who have seen the seventh regiment armory, it is built with civil war art and art from other american conflicts. Army and navy clubs all over the country. They were preserved because they were put into institutional settings really early. Not many were done for private collections, and that is why they survived. Valerie and one such painting, which is up there on the right. How accurate is that painting . Are they all real characters that are depicted in it . Harold yeah. My understanding is some portraits were based on survivors and that inevitably the calvary charge is based on descriptions of the survivors that the artist was privy to, collected by the family for his use. Obviously, there was no photography of the war at that point. There was photography, but it was not action photography. What we said earlier, it was not romanticized, but it was somewhat invented. It was just not a very pleasant glorification. Valerie we are back to lincoln. We are in your wheelhouse. [laughter] did he enjoy art . And were there Many American art museums during his life . Harold there were not many. The big breakthrough for art museums was 1870, five years after the war, when the metropolitan, the museum of fine arts in boston, and the Art Institute in chicago were all founded. But there were plenty of art galleries. Lincoln was not an attendee of art galleries. He was a different judge of art, in critiquing pictures of himself that he was compelled to praise or acknowledge when they were being painted. On the other hand, he let artists and sculptors have their go at him a lot during the war. You think he would be otherwise engaged. He never sat still like George Washington did for gilbert stuart. He had to be painted on the jump, as he put it, while he was working. Usually on his correspondence. But he allowed them and he was very felicitous. He let carpenter hang out in the state dining room for six months painting the emancipation painting and other pictures. I will say, one exception i know of was when the first major painting of ulysses s. Grant was brought to the capital for display and lincoln was invited to see it. He had not met grant up to that point. I think part of him felt obliged to pay tribute to him, and another part of him said if i dont go pay homage at this painting, people are going to think i am afraid of grant running for president. So he went up to capitol hill to look at it. That may be the only that i know of that he had a gander at during the civil war. He liked the emancipation proclamation painting. He said it was as good as it could get. Valerie were there any american art museums during lincolns life . Yes. 1870 was a very important year for american art. Harold i dont know what the installations were like during the war. The National Academy of design was operating during the war, and every season they would hang paintings. We know from the records these included war paintings. Valerie it is a museum and a library. It is very different from the museums as colossal and encyclopedic as museums like the met. Another lincoln question for you. Did lincoln ever visit any of the prisons . Was he concerned about the conditions . Harold he visited camp hospitals. That would be as close as he got to seeing confederates who were under restraint. When he went to visit the wounded at campsites, he would to the tent that contained the confederate soldiers. He would recognize them and extend his hand and say, i will shake your hand if you shake mine. Always, they were drawn to him and shook his hand. He did not visit prison or war camps, to my knowledge, but he did visit hospital camps. Valerie we are up to our last question now. Are you aware of any africanamerican artists who depicted this era . Harold yeah, there were some. I hate to go back to lincoln as my fallback, but there was a painter named derek bowser who painted lincoln in other scenes. Yes, there were africanamerican artists that worked. Not many, but lincoln was a particularly evocative and attractive subject, so he did attract at least bowser and others. Leo Matthew Pryor was another artist. And im sure there were battle artists as well. Harold thank you once again for your wonderful insights and anecdotes. You make such a great partner in this series. And thank you to our audience for being with us and for your support. Good night. Harold good night. All of our programs are archived at her website on cspan. Org. You can watch lectures in college classrooms, archival films, and see our schedule of upcoming programs. Each week, American History bring youamerica films that provide context for todays Public Affairs issues. Tell you going to about veins and arteries and how they are like the roads and highways of the body. It is through them that little workers get around and do their jobs. We said your body is really like a model city in which everything runs smoothly and we will continue to do so as long as it is left undisturbed by the invader disease. 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Up next, author and filmmaker Mallory Omeara discusses her book, the lady from the black lagoon hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of milicent patrick. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this event and provided the video. Mallory i wrote a book called the lady from the black lagoon hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of milicent patrick. But who the heck is milicent patrick . She is the forrest gump of the 1950s
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