Civil War print - Art Ward Rant - Charles Farrar Browne

From the exhibit ZOUAVES, DEVILS & SASS, Political Passions & The Printed Envelope During The American Civil War.

 Print size 24 x 14, and consciously formatted to work with a 24 x 14 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

Artemus Ward was the nom de plume of American humorist Charles Farrar Browne, favorite author of President Lincoln and an inspiration to the young Mark Twain among many others.

 While reading bits and pieces of this remarkable rant, I have yet to find a solid thigh slapper, but delicately dissected by the serious Civil War scholar will, I'm sure, reveal many issues, atrocities, calamities and otherwise well meaning boobishness that deserves and receives Art Ward's lampooning lance.

Personally, I am mesmerized by the choices made by the artist in presenting both Ward and his words. The printing does actually bleed right past the edge of the paper, so we were given the choice to leave it as is or expand the background with the graphic tools in our quiver to crisply highlight every bit of every word. We could have performed the latter improvement with the skill of a surgeon and the viewer would not be the wiser, and in our quest to have the experience of a digitally restored print be all it can be, visually, we have done such work with joy and clear conscience. That said, we chose the former, feeling the crazy full bleed and bleed over of the graphic fit with the richness and wildness of the piece in total. 

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

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