
The Freedman
John Quincy Adams Ward · Modeled 1862–63
Provenance
Ownership history
- Samuel L. Stone, Boston, mid-1940s; given by his wife to their son, Stephen Stone, Las Vegas, NV, by 1995 [purchased by Samuel Stone after 1945 and given to Stephen Stone following Samuel's death; according to letter from Stephen Stone, dated June 7, 1995, copy in curatorial object file]; sold, Sotheby's, New York, May 25, 1995, lot 177, to Conner-Rosenkranz, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, <em>Afro–Atlantic Histories</em>, Oct. 24, 2021–Jan. 17, 2022, no cat. no.; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Apr. 10–July 17, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 11, 2022–Sept. 10, 2023; Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 22, 2023–Feb. 11, 2024 (Washington, DC, only).
Literature
Published references
- Lorado Taft, <em>The History of American Sculpture</em> (Macmillan, 1924), 220–21, 229.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 193–195, cat. 88 (ill.).
- Clare Kunny and Andrew Walker, “Introduction,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 1 (2001): 4–6.
- Angela Miller, “Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 1 (2001): 40–41, 57–59.
- Kirk Savage, “Molding Emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman and the Meaning of the Civil War,” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 27, no. 1 (2001): 26–39, fig. 2.
- Adriano Pedrosa, ed., <em>Afro-Atlantic Histories</em>, exh. cat. (DelMonico Books, 2021), no cat. no., fig. 85 (ill.).
- Thayer Tolles, "The Freedman in Multiple: A Look at Its Casting History," in <em>Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation</em>, ed. Margaret C. Adler, exh. cat. (Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2023), 96–111 (another example ill.).
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