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The Art Institute of Chicago Front Matter Source: Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War (2001), pp. 1-3 Published by: The Art Institute of Chicago Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4102834 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 08:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . The Art Institute of Chicago is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.60 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 08:17:32 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Page 1: Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War || Front Matter

The Art Institute of Chicago

Front MatterSource: Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, Terrain of Freedom:American Art and the Civil War (2001), pp. 1-3Published by: The Art Institute of ChicagoStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4102834 .

Accessed: 14/06/2014 08:17

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

.JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].

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Terrain of Freedom AMERICAN ART AND THE CIVIL WAR

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

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Terrain of Freedom AMERICAN ART AND THE CIVIL WAR

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Museum Studies

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THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Museum Studies

VOLUME 27, NO. I

? 2001 by The Art Institute of Chicago

ISSN 0069-3235

ISBN 0-86559-I86-5

Published semiannually by The Art Institute of Chicago, iii South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603-6I10.

Regular subscription rates: $20 for members of the Art Institute, $25 for other individuals, and $40 for institutions.

Subscribers outside the U.S.A. should add $8 per year for postage. For more information, call (312) 443-3786 or

consult our Web site at www.artic.edu/aic/books.

For individuals, single copies are $I5 each. For institutions, all single copies are $19 each. For orders of single copies outside the U.S.A., please add $5 per copy. Back issues are available from The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop or from the Publications Department of the Art Institute at the address above.

Executive Director of Publications: Susan E Rossen; Editor of Museum Studies: Gregory Nosan; Photo Editor: Karen

Altschul; Designer: Ann M. Wassmann; Production: Sarah E. Guernsey; Subscription and Circulation Manager:

Bryan D. Miller.

Unless otherwise noted, all works in the Art Institute's collections were photographed by the Department of Imaging, Alan Newman, Executive Director.

Volume 27, no. i, was typeset in Stempel Garamond and Officina Sans by Z...Art & Graphics, Chicago; color

separations were made by Professional Graphics, Inc., Rockford, Illinois. The issue was printed by Meridian Printing, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and bound by Midwest Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Front cover: top row: Daniel Chester French (American; 185o-1931). Abraham Lincoln, after I912 (detail; see p. 9);

Frederic Edwin Church (American; 1826-1900). Our Banner in the Sky, 1861 (detail; see p. 73); Constant Mayer

(American, born France; I829-1911). Love's Melancholy, 1866 (detail; see p. 24); bottom row: American. Freedom to

the Slave, c. I86o (detail; see p. 28); Samuel J. Miller (American; ?-i888). Frederick Douglass, 1847/52 (detail; see p. 18);

John Quincy Adams Ward (American; 183o-91io). The Freedman, 1863 (detail; see p. 29).

Back cover: George Cope (American; 1855-1929). Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley, 1887 (see p. 4).

Ongoing support for Museum Studies has been provided by a grant for scholarly catalogues and publications from

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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CONTENTS

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THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

Museum Studies, VOLUME 27, NO. I

Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War

Introduction ................................................ 4

ANDREW WALKER, CLARE KUNNY

The Civil War and the Story of American Freedom ....................... 8

ERIC FONER

Molding Emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward's The Freedman

and the Meaning of the CiviL War ................................ 26

KIRK SAVAGE

Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the CiviL War Era................................. 40

ANGELA MILLER

The History in the Art: Painting the CiviL War ........................ 60

STEVEN CONN, ANDREW WALKER

Race Identity/Identifying Race: Robert S. Duncanson and

Nineteenth-Century American Painting .............................. 82

MARGARET ROSE VENDRYES

Notes ..................................................... 100

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