President Lincoln, General Grant, and Tad Lincoln at a Railway Station, from The Century Magazine, November 1887
1887
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Ray Austrian Collection, gift of Beatrice L. Austrian, Caryl A. Austrian and James A. Austrian
Accession Number
1996.63.220
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the Smithsonian American Art Museum to discover Winslow Homer's evocative 1887 print, *President Lincoln, General Grant and Tad Lincoln at a Station*, featured in *The Century Magazines November issue. This graphic arts print captures a rare, imagined moment uniting three iconic figures: President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant—hero of the Civil War—and Tad Lincoln, the president's son. Homer, a leading realist painter known for his unflinching depictions of American, renders them in full-length portraits at a bustling railroad station, blending historical reverence with e...
About the Artist
Winslow Homer · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...