After the Civil War ended, Rogers produced a few more sculptures that memorialized the Northern leaders of the conflict. The Council of War is a monument to General Ulysses S. Grant, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, and the slain president Abraham Lincoln. The idea for the group came from Stanton. He suggested one of the president's key councils of war in March 1864, immediately after Grant was given charge of all the Union armies. Rogers took great care with the three likenesses. He visited Grant and Stanton, and relied on photographs for the assassinated president. Critics praised Rogers' likenesses of the three men, whose faces were well known to the public. Some noted the particular difficulty of rendering Lincoln. His lanky, ungainly figure was a challenge for artists to realize in the heroic fashion appropriate to the man considered a martyr for the republic. The president's son Robert later wrote that his family considered The Council of War the most lifelike rendering of his father in sculpture. Visit John Rogers: American Stories now through February 18, 2013 at the New-York Historical Society:
http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/...new york life The Civil War & John Rogers: The Council of War | |
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