Frederick Douglass by Samuel J. Miller
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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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