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THE LINCOLNS 
Expressionistic
Portraits
2020-2021

VIDEO LINKS:

Roz Dimon speaks to the Lincoln Museum in Springfield. IL
 

Margaret Hoover of Firing Line interviews John Avlon and Roz Dimon

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Short 50-second summary of The Lincoln Drawings

ARTIST'S STATEMENT:

During the period beginning December 2020 and extending through the 2021 inauguration, I pondered what I might do as an artist to bring comfort, hope, and thoughtfulness to the ongoing political climate of intolerance and hatred.


The1863 black & white photo of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner inspired the series -- a face full of vision, suffering, steadfastness offering multiple interpretations simultaneously . . . one that looked like a civil war battlefield itself. 

 

I drew 19 Lincolns -- all black and white drawings, except for the final BLUE . . .  Drawn the night before the 2021 inauguration, Lincoln's bow tie has gone blue - his whole visage in blue tones. 
 
These works are drawn in various media from pencil to charcoal to using my digital pen and various brush strokes - inclusion of digital media brings the man to our age, and our age to the man in a way that speaks distinctly to this time. 

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19 DRAWINGS OF LINCOLN:

12 digital media drawings are now in the collection of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL

5 NATURAL MEDIA
19x13" mixed-media on paper​

 

14 DIGITAL MEDIA

digital drawings fabricated to ink-on-paper
19x13" Edition of 20

60x42" Edition of 10

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