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James A. Garfield
James Lambdin1880
The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, United States
Portrait of President James A. Garfield (1831-1881), 20th President of the United States. President Garfield is represented as a balding and bearded, in a profile facing his left, set against a dark green background. Although artist James Reed Lambdin painted President Garfield before he was assassinated, he probably worked from a photograph rather than from life, because of the President’s noticeably rigid pose and his appearance as psychologically remote. The portrait’s inanimate quality may also be ascribed to the fact that this painting dates from very late in the artist’s career.
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Details
- Title: James A. Garfield
- Creator: James Reid Lambdin
- Date Created: 1880
- Physical Dimensions: Height-30 inches, Width-25 inches
- Provenance: Purchased from the artist by The Union League of Philadelphia, a patriotic society founded in 1862 to support Abraham Lincoln and the Union during the American Civil War, in 1870. On July 9, 1880, the Union League House Committee minutes note that the portrait of President Garfield was deposited by artist James Reed Lambdin.
- Type: Oil painting
- Rights: The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of the Union League of Philadelphia. For questions regarding usage please contact archives@unionleague.org.
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Internal ID: 1880.2.1
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