
Frederick Douglass
Samuel J. Miller · 1847-52
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "In Their Own Right," September 27, 1997-January 11, 1998. (Colin Westerbeck) (Galleries 141 & 142)
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Majestic in his Wrath: The Frederick Douglass Daguerreotype," February 8–June 1, 2003.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Tell It With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and August Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial," September 15, 2013–January 20, 2014. (Wendy Battaglino)
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 189 Permanent Collection Rotation, January 8–April 15, 2019.
Literature
Published references
- Rossen, Susan F. 1999. "Introduction." Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 24. no. 2. p. 142.
- “African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago.” edited by Susan F. Rossen, 9. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago in association with the University of Washington Press, 1999
- Westerbeck, Colin L. 1999. “Frederick Douglass Chooses His Moment.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 24, no. 2. pp. 144-61, figs. 1, 10.
- Foner, Eric. 2001. “The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 27. no. 1. p. 18, pl. 4.
- Davis, David Brion. 2006. "Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World." Oxford Unversity Press. n. pag.
- Sharp, Robert V., Elizabeth Stepina and Susan E. Weidemeyer. 2009. "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide." Art Institute of Chicago. p. 269.
- Druick, Douglas and Robert V. Sharp. 2013. "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide." Art Institute of Chicago. p. 283.
- Greenough, Sarah and Nancy K. Anderson. 2013. "Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and August Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial." Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington/Yale University Press. p. 27, pl. 5.
- Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," ed. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, fig. 1, p. 13 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
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