Robert Green Ingersoll 1890 Resilience_art Alexander Anderson

Alexander Anderson

19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg

Wyoming Yellowstone Park arrives in the language of geyser steam and bison herds — Old Faithful mid-eruption on linen stock

the great house of the Potomac standing in for the quieter chapter of a man whose name had already calcified into legend

Robert Green Ingersoll 1890 Resilience_art Alexander AndersonRobert Green Ingersoll 1890. The Great Agnostic at the height of his lecture circuit fame, rendered in the kind of dignified portrait reserved for orators who had learned to weaponize doubt a man who made auditoriums full of Gilded Age Americans pay good money to hear their gods politely dismantled. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional