His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork Woodmen of the World Father

Woodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 — a fraternal portrait of Joseph Cullen Root

his fur cap and spectacles doing the quiet work of a republic still arguing for its own existence

each planet pinned in its appointed arc like a hymn the draftsman had memorized

Theodore Frelinghuysen — the New Jersey senator and Whig vice-presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid-century portraiture

distressed black frame

His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork Woodmen of the World FatherHis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875. A devotional portrait of the first American to wear the red hat, rendered in the formal idiom of post war ecclesiastical printmaking biretta, pectoral cross, and the steady gaze of a prelate whose elevation marked the Catholic arrival in a Protestant republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National