Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art that great Irish reflector through

that great Irish reflector through which the Earl coaxed cratered shadows into legible grief

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

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

The Men of the Hour 1919 gathers the architects of the postwar settlement in the brittle afterglow of the Armistice — a group portrait of statesmen and commanders posed with the unwelcome gravity of a republic that had crossed an ocean to bury its dead

Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri, An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri little rock art that great Irish reflector throughEmancipation 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