Lincoln after Stuart (Springfield portrait), detail, 34" x 44"
oil on canvas, 2008
after/inspired by Lincoln after Stuart (Saunders portrait) 2002
oil on canvas, 2008
after/inspired by Lincoln after Stuart (Saunders portrait) 2002
Gilbert Stuart painted George Washington in 1796 in what would become the seminal portrait of the first President. Stuart never finished the portrait nor was it ever delivered. This unfinished Lincoln portrait points to his/our unfinished civic work.
<link to a YouTube video of this exhibition, with commentary by Don Pollack>
The Lincoln Project
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
and Museum, Springfield, Illinois
February 8 - May 17, 2009
A Search for Heroes, Lincoln and the Illinois Landscape
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
March 14 - April 25, 2003
