The Boyhood of Lincoln: An Evening in the Log Hut – Eastman Johnson, 1868
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description: The Boyhood of Lincoln: An Evening in the Log Hut by Eastman Johnson, 1868Framed Canvas ArtA single firelight source does all the work in this intimate scene, carving a young Abraham Lincoln out of near-total darkness as he reclines against the rough-hewn stone hearth of a frontier cabin. The Boyhood of Lincoln: An Evening in the Log Hut presents the future president as a lanky adolescent absorbed in a book he holds close to the flames, his amber-orange jacket catching the warm glow while the rest of the composition dissolves into deep umber and near-black shadow. The uneven stone wall, hanging ladle, iron chain, and stacked firewood are rendered with the sober particularity of a journalist's eye: every detail confirms the hardship of pioneer Indiana life without sentimentality. Eastman Johnson applies paint in firm, confident strokes that describe texture precisely: the nap of the boy's wool coat, the splintered grain of the floorboards, the cool grey of the fieldstone. The tonal range is extreme, moving from the inky darkness of the ceiling beams to the near-white page the boy is reading, with the firelight providing a narrow, luminous corridor between those two poles.Johnson painted this work in 1868, just three years after Lincoln's assassination, when national grief had transformed the sixteenth president into a mythological figure and the public was hungry for images of his humble origins. The painting participates directly in that biographical myth-making, drawing on stories that had circulated since Lincoln's own 1860 campaign: that he had taught himself to read by firelight because candles were too expensive, that he walked miles to borrow books, that self-improvement was an act of will against poverty. Johnson had already established himself as one of America's foremost genre painters with his 1859 breakthrough Old Kentucky Home, and he brought the same American genre realism to this commission, rooting heroic narrative firmly in domestic, material fact. T…
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  value: Gold, Silver, Dark Bronze
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