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| Winfield Scott Hancock |
Preparing my studio for the opening of the "GO Brooklyn" event, I was coached by my family to include a series of paintings I call the "Generals".The generals live in our loft, stacked in a remote corner. Stacked one on top of each other they are over three feet high! They are oil on plywood, mounted on a 11/2 inch wood stretcher bar. Each portrait is 11"x14". I spent about one month painting them and I have about 20 in all. I had originally envisioned displaying them hung in a grid format on the wall of five across by four high. But now I've grown accustom to them stacked one on top of another on the floor.
This series was inspired after reading Stephen W. Sears book "Gettysburg" three years ago. Whenever I came across the name of a Union officer who's heroic action during the battle moved me, I looked up there photograph in the on-line picture collection of the Library of Congress. They have some high resolution TIFF files of most of the Union officers. It was fascinating connecting a face with there heroic act. My love of the photographic images of the time and the intersection of painting took over from there and here is the results.
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| Samuel Kosciuszko Zook |
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| George Sykes |
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| Danial E. Sickles |
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| Joshua Chamberlain |
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| Francis C Barlow |
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| Adelbert Ames |
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| George Lamb Willard |
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| Von Steinwehr |
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| George Gordon Meade |
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| Daniel Butterfield |
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| John Fulton Reynolds |
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| Henry Baxter |
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| Gouverneur Kemble Warren |
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| Thomas Smyth |
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| O.O. Howard |
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| Abner Doubleday |
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| Henry Warner Slocum |
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| Edward Ephraim Cross |
