Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art a lithographic meditation on Washington

a lithographic meditation on Washington not as general or president but as private man — the republic

The image carries the weight of the Shenandoah and Appomattox folded into a single posthumous likeness

smoke and shattered hull pitched against a night sky that would

We print this archival document to order at our Pacific Northwest studio on premium canvas stock with archival pigment inks

when Good Friday's gunshot at Ford's Theatre transfigured a wartime president into the republic's first secular saint

Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art a lithographic meditation on WashingtonEmancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri the legislative breath by which a border state, long torn between Union loyalty and slaveholding habit, finally set its bondsmen free. The document carries the dry cadence of statute and the seismic weight of a republic dragging itself, clause by clause, toward its own stated creed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive