February 13 - March 12, 2021
From the gallery:
“Eugene Binder is pleased to announce the first 2021 exhibition “The Great Uniter”, paintings by Robert Terry.
New York artist Robert Terry is best known for his heavily impastoed land- and cityscapes, but he also has a consuming interest in American history: Terry continues to work on an ongoing series of paintings of Abraham Lincoln which he began almost 30 years ago. The portraits are based on several of the 130 Lincoln photographs in existence today.
Click on the image to view the online catalog with a text by Francis Colpitt
Lincoln was the first United States president who was keenly aware of the power of the photographic medium and was known to have acknowledged that “Brady and the Cooper Union speech made me president”. He posed for these images on historic occasions but also during more introspective moments, many of them taken by photojournalism-pioneer Mathew Brady.
Although the 21 works in the exhibition are based on only eleven different photographs taken between 1858 and 1865 (all of them showing Lincoln dressed in a white shirt, black coat, and bowtie),Terry successfully mediates the mood and implied demeanor of his subject in front of brightly colored or subdued backgrounds.
Please join us in viewing these extraordinary paintings starting today until March 12. We hope you take a moment to view the online catalog and follow us on Instagram.”
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