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George Washington, also entitled George Washington and William Lee, is a full-length portrait in oil painted in 1780 by the American artist John Trumbull during the American Revolutionary War. [1] General George Washington stands near his enslaved servant William Lee, overlooking the Hudson River in New York, with West Point and ships in the ...
George Washington (also known as Washington and the Departure of the British Garrison from New York City) is a large full-length oil painting by American artist John Trumbull in 1790. Trumbull's earlier 1790 work, Washington at Verplanck's Point , which he had gifted to Washington's wife Martha, had been very well received.
John Quincy Adams Ward (June 29, 1830 – May 1, 1910) was an American sculptor, whose most familiar work is his larger than life-size standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City.
Manhattan, New York City, NY Alison Saar: 2007 Ray Charles memorial Ray Charles: Greenville, FL: Bradley Cooley, Brad Cooley Jr 2006 He grew up in Greenville. [5]: 16 29th Colored Regiment Monument: 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment: New Haven, CT: Ed Hamilton: 2008 Statue of Frederick Dogulass: Frederick Douglass: Harlem, New York ...
A postcard captioned "Lincoln Statue" depicts the Emancipation Memorial circa 1900.. Harriet Hosmer proposed a grander monument than that suggested by Thomas Ball. Her design, which was ultimately deemed too expensive, posed Lincoln atop a tall central pillar flanked by smaller pillars topped with black Civil War soldiers and other figures.
Solomon Northup (1807 – c. 1863), [191] [192] a farmer, professional violinist, and free-born black man from New York who was lured to Washington, D.C., where slavery was legal, kidnapped, and sold in the South. He remained enslaved in Louisiana from 1841 until he was rescued and liberated in 1853.
The John Brown Farm State Historic Site includes the home and final resting place of abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859). It is located on John Brown Road in the town of North Elba, 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Lake Placid, New York, where John Brown moved in 1849 to teach farming to African Americans.
John Newman is an American sculptor. He was born in Flushing, Queens in 1952. [1] He received his B.A. from Oberlin College (1973). [2] He attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1972 and received his M.F.A. in 1975 from the Yale School of Art. [3]