1865 CHICAGO PRE FIRE RE CIVIL WAR AFRICAN AMERICAN CHALK LITHOGRAPH ART ANTIQUE

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An original chalk-manner stone lithograph (with ink and watercolor) dated by me to approximately 1864 or 1865 and possibly by well-known artist Louis Kurz. I have information indicating that this company was founded in either 1864 or 1865 and closed after the Great Fire of 1871. The piece measures approximately 9 ? x 10 ?? inches and has a few condition issues as pictures but easily fixed. There is also a small tear on the bottom right lower third side. Mr. Kurz was famous for his Civil War chromolithographs while partnered as part of Kurz and Allison. These images were pro Union and sympathetic to the African American cause. I would say the title ??Long Drawn Out ? refers to both the Civil War and the African American struggles. Rising from a basement, an apparent weary African American soldier with aged and civilian symbolism is relieving the younger generation (as shown by the tooth pull) and bringing hope. It appears the juvenile nature of the reclined man represents hope for a greater future as well. All this is just my take and I ??m interested to hear any other opinions. Thanks for looking at this rare item and please read some great selections from a University of Iowa article re: Kurtz and Allison. The Chicago Lithographing Company, established in 1864 by Louis Kurz and several partners and reorganized by Edward Carqueville and Charles Shober after the Chicago fire of 1871, printed Camille N. Drie ??s view of Galveston in 1871 as well as D. D. Morse ??s views of Fort Worth and McKinney. www.birdseyeviews.org Amon Carter MuseumCivil Rights in Popular Prints: Kurz and Allison ??s Civil War Series Barbaranne E. Mocella Liakos, University of Iowa Montage April 2008Kurz was born in Austria and moved to Milwaukee with his family as a youth. He later moved to Chicago, where in 1865 he co-founded the Chicago Lithographing Company. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 Kurz returned to Milwaukee where he founded the American Oleograph Company the next year. In 1878 he again returned to Chicago where he would pass the rest of his life. He continued at the firm of Kurz and Allison until his death in 1921.As a group the prints represent black Americans as equals to their white Union counterparts, and as more able, or ??as in the case of the Fort Pillow Massacres ?? more human than their white Confederate enemies. Pro-Union publications usually characterized Union militia, both black and white soldiers, as superior to Confederate, but multiple depictions of blacks as equally able to fight is unique in print sets of this time.24 Kurz and Allison ??s predisposition towards scenes representing the strength and resolve of black soldiers over and above a need for accuracy shows how committed the firm was to advancing the larger discourse surrounding civil rights.During the Civil War the majority of Chicago residents were pro-Union. This was not an overwhelming majority, however, and anti-Union, anti-abolitionist rhetoric was also evident.In Rally ??Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War author, Theodore Karamanski, explains that, ??Although southerners often denounced the city as a ??nigger loving town ?? and a den of ??BlackRepublicanism, ?? Chicago was not strongly abolitionist. ? 45 But, like other northern cities, there were various abolitionist groups and small free black communities. In a paper read before the Chicago Historical Society in 1890, Union supporter Augustus Harris Burley noted angrily, ?? . we were surrounded by traitors in Chicago, and a large proportion of the people of Southern Illinois sympathized with the South ? 46 Kurz and Allison ??s images of Black soldiers, however, refuted the notions of the ??traitors ? and supported the calls for abolition. In the mid nineteenth century Chicago was becoming a booming metropolis. During the war years the population grew from 110,000 to 190,000.47 By the 1890 ??s the number was 1,100,000. Blacks made up a small percentage of this population, but their numbers c. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 63907-2359

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