First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador Size:36x24 complicated work of agreeing on

complicated work of agreeing on what the two days at Pittsburg Landing had cost

The portrait carries the weight of a soldier who had outlived his century and was being asked

The image carries the quiet gravity of Gilded Age Massachusetts

the Tetons rendered in improbable indigo

Fort McHenry

First Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador Size:36x24 complicated work of agreeing onFirst Landing of Columbus on the Shores of the New World, at San Salvador an engraving freighted with the founding myth of the hemisphere, staging the October morning at San Salvador as solemn theater: banner unfurled, knee bent, an ocean's distance compressed into a single ceremonial gesture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical