American Literature: Reconstruction Period
Ralph L. Boyer (created by)
September 1 1936 (Date manufactured/created)
Oil on canvas
Canvas
55 inches H
X
94 inches W
Measurement Notes: documented by conservator Christine Cunningham-Adams
Oil on canvas. Portrayed in the second mural of the triptych are, from left to right: Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Abraham Lincoln, Joel Chandler Harris, George Cable, Emily Dickinson, and Bret Harte standing before the U.S. Capitol and the Library of Congress and 19th-century onlookers and westward settlers. Photograph by Karl LaRoche, Stamford, CT, for Federal Art Project, W.P.A.
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