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E x p l o r e t h e C i v i l Wa r :
The Exhibitions

AThe Blue and The Gray Grooms based some portraits and battle
rtist Red Grooms brings colorful, scenes on these photographs, which he
expressionist style to his interpre- painted on wood panels and canvas, even
tations of Civil War battles and the on the face of sliced logs. To display the
personalities on both sides of the conflict. work, Grooms collaborated with his wife
Lysiane Luong Grooms, an artist and archi-
tect, to fabricate unique frames or mounts.

Lincoln On the Hudson

Inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s brief so-
journ in Peekskill, Grooms created a new
sculpto-pictorama, Lincoln On the Hudson,
which captures a moment in Westchester

Red Grooms.
New York Fire Zouaves, 2010

Growing up in Tennessee, Grooms
was fascinated by military history and the
Civil War. The Blue and The Gray includes
a portrait of Lincoln surrounded by action
scenes in A Twelve Year Old Boy’s Civil War,
an example of his early painterly efforts
from 1949. Returning to this subject more
than 45 years later, Grooms records the
panorama of the war waged between the
Northern and Southern states. He delved
into primary sources of the period, such
as the photographs of Mathew Brady, one
of America’s first photographers, who was
known for documenting Civil War scenes.
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