The Council Of War

...at The Brooklyn Museum.For the Wikipedia Loves Art Project.This sculptural group was a memorial to Abraham Lincoln and the recent war, and was marketed as such to a wide audience of upper-middle-class Americans. It represents the seated president receiving the map of a battle plan from General Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The sculptor John Rogers had established his reputation for this type of narrative figure group by 1863 with a work titled Union Refugees, which was initially rendered in bronze. Rogers's method of patenting his designs and replicating them in plaster made him the first American to mass-produce sculpture for a popular market.

Artist: John Rogers, American, 1829-1904
Medium: Plaster
Place Made: New York, USA
Dates: 1868