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Folk Art painting of the Battle of Lookout Mountain: "The Battle Above the Clouds"

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD
Folk Art painting of the Battle of Lookout Mountain: The Battle Above the Clouds

This sofa size painting (6ftx3ft) has been completed by the Union Map Maker, Corp. Blakeslee of the 129th Reg. Illinois. He
describes the painting in detail in a 30 page journal style book(see photo) which is included with the purchase of the painting. “In front is seen Lookout Valley. Through this runs the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad. In this Valley as a line of sand hills, the largest named Tyndall's the one beyond, Smiths Hill. This picture was sketched from Bald Hill. This my friends is an entirely new kind of battle picture. There is none of the dramatic fury and action with which we
are familiar in the works of those great artists, who have never seen a fight but who speak to the imagination through broken
caissons, rearing horses, agonizing death, wounds, and mechanical: bayonet charges. This is a real picture of the whole field
over which Gen. Hooker made his famous movement of the 24 days of November, 1863. The moment chosen is when Major Reynolds, chief of artillery comes to report to General Hooker. The field is already won the troops have gained the mountain up to the palisades and turned the flank of the rebel positions. The confederates are in full flight down the steep slope of the mountain. They are destroying the railroad - blowing up the embankment, and retreating rapidly towards the open cut.”


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