American artifacts visits museums and historic places you re looking at petersen house here in washington dc where president abraham lincoln passed away at 7:22. Am on april 15th of 1865. Up next a tour of the former boarding house located across the street from ford s theater where abraham lincoln was shot 150 years ago. This is an interesting house that has a great history. Even before abraham lincoln was assassinated here. This house was built in the early 1850s by german immigrant to america william peterson, and he used this house as a boarding house up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. And so this is really a relic of 19th century civil war boarding house culture once upon a time everybody lived in boarding houses here congressman senators, even vice presidents of the united states lived in group homes. So this house aside from its history of being the place where abraham lincoln died is an important part of antebellum civil and civil war washington dc history aside from t
Gestating for an awfully long time in the wake of the bicentennial american art scholarship really took off like a rocket but one of the things that happened as a result of the bicentennial i think is that we tended to look at historical events as benchmarks along the way nodes of progress as this great country developed, but there wasn t a lot of analytical work done on the effect of some of those events and unless you were working on an artist like winslow homer who directly engages with the civil war in general the war occurs as an event in a number of these artists lives. It s sometimes shows up directly in works, but most of the time not and as a result, they re never really had been a deep study and understanding of what the war years did to american art in this country it it s a parallel that holds and doesn t hold but i couldn t help as i was. Using about how to put this exhibition together that in the wake of 9/11. Look at what one day did to us as a country. You have a befor
Breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the united states specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a landscape painter and i think he and sanford gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if you look at gifford s pictures and you look at chapman s pictures, there are a lot of parallels in the way that they handle the skies and the emotion and the little teeny tiny figures and they re better doing little ones than they are doing big ones because basically their landscape painters conrad his dad finally gets him reassigned away from the action. He shot. He shoots himself in the head at shiloh, which maybe one of those selfinflicted. You know stress moves. It doesn t obviously kill him. It just gets him out of action for a while and his dad basically appeals to the governor of virginia who is a general in the
Boarding house located across the street from ford s theater where abraham lincoln was shot 150 years ago. This is an interesting house that has a great history. Even before abraham lincoln was assassinated here. This house was built in the early 1850s by german immigrant to america william peterson, and he used this house as a boarding house up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. And so this is really a relic of 19th century civil war boarding house culture once upon a time everybody lived in boarding houses here congressman senators, even vice presidents of the united states lived in group homes. So this house aside from its history of being the place where abraham lincoln died is an important part of antebellum civil and civil war washington dc history aside from this being the lincoln death house. This house is also great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boarding house life in washington dc. I have been coming here for years making pilgrimages here. I started comi
That has a great history. Even before abraham lincoln was assassinated here. This house was built in the early 1850s by german immigrant to america william peterson, and he used this house as a boarding house up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. And so this is really a relic of 19th century civil war boarding house culture once upon a time everybody lived in boarding houses here congressman senators, even vice presidents of the united states lived in group homes. So this house aside from its history of being the place where abraham lincoln died is an important part of antebellum civil and civil war washington dc history aside from this being the lincoln death house. This house is also great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boarding house life in washington dc. I ve been coming here for years making pilgrimages here. I started coming here in 1986 when i joined the reagan administration and i ve been coming here for years and very excited that this year for the $150th