1868, Boston, MA; d. 1929, Gloucester, MA, b. 1911, Baltimore, MD; d. 2001, Savannah, GA, b. 1916, New Orleans, LA; d. 2020, New Orleans, LA. 1898, North East, PA; d. after 1976, Erie, PA, b. Kansas State Historical Society, 785.272.8681, ext. Chronologically from right to left are the Franciscan missionary Fray Juan de Padilla and the conquistador Coronado, the first Europeans to visit the land that became Kansas, followed by a plainsman, who has just killed a buffalo. 1890, St. Louis, MO; d. 1947, DeKalb, GA, Hosterman, Naomi/Naomie Louise Sunderland, b. 1863?, Murfreesboro, TN; d. 1935, Nashville, TN, Ney, Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth "Elisabet", b. in Lawrence, John Brown led a raid on scattered cabins along the Pottawatomie Creek, killing five people. John Steuart Curry A mural currently in the Kansas State Capitol building. 1983, MA; d. 1943, Pinellas County, FL, b. 1894, Washington, DC; d. 1977, Washington, DC, b. 1844, Norfolk, VA; d. 1922, Norfolk, VA, b. 1890, Spartanburg, SC; d. 1979, North Salem, NY, b. 1888, Baltimore, MD; d. 1981, Los Angeles, CA, b. 1876; Louisville, KY; d. 1946, Jefferson County, KY, b. 1920, Baltimore, MD; d. 2018, Oakland, CA, b. 1866, New York, NY; d. 1936, Raleigh, NC, b. 1885, Minneapolis, MN; d. 1970, Metairie, LA, b. 1885, Washington City, DC; d. 1963, Washington, DC, b. 1871, Shinnston, WV; d. 1947, Shinnston, WV, b. 1873, Washington, DC; d. 1941, Charlottesville, VA, b. 1858, Louisville, KY; d. 1958, New Orleans, LA, b. 1937, Greensboro, NC; d. 2010, Zebulon, NC (buried Franklinton, NC), b. 1872, Washington, DC; d. 1961, Fairfax, VA, b. Dining Services. 1899, Baltimore, MD; d. 1989, Atlantic City, NJ, b. 1874, Charleston, SC; d. 1956, Charleston, SC, b. 1904, London, KY; d. 1990, Hamilton, OH, b. Curry's interpretation of John Brown and the antislavery movement in Kansas Territory before the Civil War, is considered one of his best murals. Sourced from scholarly and primary materials, as well as museum archives, exhibition records, and socio-cultural records, the list is neither exhaustive nor perfect. John Steuart Curry's "Tragic Prelude," on the second floor of the Kansas Capitol, is 11 6 tall by 31 feet long. 1865, New Orleans, LA; d. 1927, New Orleans, LA, b. On the north wall it depicts abolitionist Kansan John Brown with a Bible in one hand, on which the Greek letters alpha and omega of Apocalypse 1:8 can be seen. 1935, Franklin, KY; d. 2019, Louisville, KY, b. 1859, Huntsville, AL; d. 1928, Richmond, VA, b. 1900, New York, NY; d . 1916, McMechen, WV; d. 2012, Pompton Lakes, NJ, Seebold, Marie Madeleine (see Molinary, Marie Madeleine Seebold), b. 1889, Amelia County, VA; d. 1972, Richmond, VA, b. 1876, New Bern, NC; d. 1959, New Bern, NC, b. 1921, Baltimore, MD; d. 2004, Washington, DC, b. 1889, New Orleans, LA; d. 1934, Metairie, LA, b. 1923, New York, NY; d. 2014, Columbia, SC, b. 1871, Elgin, IL; d. 1918, Huntington, WV, b. 1879, Bay Ridge, NY; d. 1976, possibly in Worcester, MA, b. 1926, Nashville, TN; d. 2018, Columbia, SC, b. 1881, Washington, DC; d. 1960, New York, NY, Nelms, Marjory/Marjorie H. Collison Schulhoff, b. 1911, Alexander City, AL; d. 2007, Alexander City, AL, b. 1852 or 1853, Westmoreland County, PA; d. 1951, Washington, DC, b. The title, Southern Chivalry argument versus clubs ironically mocks this attack as southern chivalry since Sumner had criticized Brookss uncle as a lover of slavery in a recent speech (the Crime Against Kansas speech, which Sumner holds in his left hand). 1866, Laval, France; d. 1953, Laguna Beach, CA, b. 1903, Marshall County, KY; d. 1988, Benton, KY, b. Brown was enraged by two recent attacks on abolitionists by pro-slavery forcesthe violent attack on the town of Lawrence, Kansas, then an abolitionist center. 1874, Nashville, TN; d. 1968, Nashville, TN, b. 1891, Columbus, GA; d. 1978, Washington, DC, b. 1876, Louisville, KY; d. 1964, Miami, FL, b 1898, New York, NY; d. 1933, possibly in Savannah, GA, b. 1934, Yanceyville, NC; d. 2004, Chapel Hill, NC, b. 1856, Dalton, GA; d. 1952, Charleston, SC, b. 1918, Brooklyn, NY; d. 1989, Southhampton, NY, b. 1882, St. Louis, MO; d. 1970, Stanford, CA, b. 1914, Newburyport, MA; d. 2006, New York, NY, b. 1885, Nashville, TN; d. 1943, Nashville, TN, b. 1920, Rome, Italy; d. 2006, Snowmass, CO, b. 1908, Louisville, KY; d. 2001, Taos, NM, b. 1915, Corydon, KY; d. 2015, Murray, KY, b. 1869 or 1870, East Feliciana, LA; d. 1929, New Orleans, LA, b. 1901, Crystal Springs, MS; d. 1991, Crystal Springs, MS, b. 1875, Forrest City, AR; d. 1958, Forrest City, AR, b. . John Steuart Curry painted this mural and others alongside it from 1937 to 1942. In 1897, John Steuart Curry was born on a farm in the unincorporated community of Dunavant, Jefferson County, Kansas. 1891, Nottingham, England; d. 1953, Rabun County, GA, b. [2] But once the Civil War was underway, Browns courageous fight against slavery took on new resonance. 1875, Atlanta, GA; d. 1931, Athens, GA, b. 1881, Pittsford, VT; d. 1963, Maplewood, NJ, b. We automatically collect and store only the following non-personally identifiable information about you: We place cookies on website visitors computers to collect aggregate information for site traffic analysis, such as the number of visitors and the number of pages viewed. 1911, Fayette, KY; d. 1982, Lexington, KY, b. 1907, Boston, MA; d. 1964, Louisville, KY, b. 1880, Walworth, WI; d. 1957, Clermont, FL, b. 1908, Giverny, France; d. 1999, Vicars Landing, FL, b. 1919, Union, SC; d. 2007, Isle of Palms, SC, b 1909, Baltimore, MD; d. 1998, Elkridge, MD, b. 1884, New Orleans, LA; d. 1966, New Orleans, LA, b. 1890, Wilmington, NC; d. 1954, Greensboro, NC, b. 1885, Savannah, GA; d. 1965, Hendersonville, NC, b. 1885, New York, NY; d. 1965, New York, NY, b. Smith], b. 1899, Jackson, GA; d. 1977, Athens, GA, b. 1913, Birmingham, AL; d. 2003, Birmingham, AL, b. 1897, Petersburg, VA; d. 1976, Petersburg, VA, b. 1936, Pensacola, FL; d. 2009, Pensacola, FL, b. 1861, Selma, AL; d. 1925, New York, NY, b. 1903, Nashville, TN; d. 1960, Nashville, TN, b. Curry's painting Tragic Prelude is a mural painted in the Kansas State Capitol. 1910, Perthshire, MS; d. 2000, Gunnison, MS, b. 1912, Guntersville, AL; d. 1993, Guntersville, AL, b. 1900, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ; d. 1971, Chatham, NJ, b. 1886, Gallipolis, OH; d. 1960, Aquia, VA, b. 1902, Pilot Mountain, NC; d. 1956, Winston-Salem, NC, b. We will collect no personally identifying information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. 1887, Bellefontaine, OH; d. 1944, Bradenton, FL, b. 1887, Brownsville, TN; d. 1965, Bradenton, FL, b. 1895, Bourbon, IN; d. 1985, Washington, DC, b. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website. 1867, Washington, DC; d. 1948, Washington, DC, b. 1870, Monroe County, KY; d. 1958, Barren County, KY, Bean, Caroline van Hook {Blommers} {Binyon}, b. 1899, Davenport, NE; d. 1983, Boca Raton, FL, b. 1895, Guilford County, NC; d. 1984, Walnut Cove, NC, b. 1921, Wuppertal, Germany; d. 2010, Princeton, NJ, b. 1915, Wilmington, NC; d. 2003, Wilmington, NC, b. 1896, Baltimore, MD; d. 1980, Philadelphia, PA, Cohen, Isabel M. {Doud} (see Doud, Isabel M. Cohen), b. 1865, Montevallo, AL; d. 1951, Birmingham, AL, b. 1881, Washington, DC; d. 1966, Warrenton, VA, b. 1911, New Albany, IN; d. 2004, Louisville, KY, b. 1900, Atlanta, GA; d. 1930, Charlotte, NC, b. 1877, Columbus, GA; d. 1965, Columbus, GA, b. 1884, Savannah, GA; d. 1967, Savannah, GA, b. 1916, San Francisco, CA; d. 2007, Petaluma, CA, b. , Cite this page as: Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott, "John Browns tragic prelude to the U.S. Civil War," in, Reframing Art History, a new kind of textbook, Guide to AP Art History vol. 1870, Eliot, ME; d. 1950, Los Angeles, CA, b. The goal is to keep every town viable that shows the will and spirit to help itself. 1922, St. Louis, MO; d. 2003, Webster Groves, MO, b. 1893, Germany; d. 1983, Washington, DC, b. Located in the southeast quadrant of Capitol Square, this statue of Abraham Lincoln was created by Robert Merrell Gage, who also created the nearby Pioneer Womens Memorial. 1874, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1950, Annapolis, MD, b. 1922, New York, NY; d. 2002, Sarasota, FL, b. 1923, Atlanta, GA; d. 2015, Carrollton, GA, b. 1913, Spring City, TN; d. 1981, Rising Fawn, GA, b. 1901, Marshall County, TN; d. 1981, Chattanooga, TN, b. When one searches for John Brown, one of the first artistic results is a mural not three miles from the university. 1908, Baltimore, MD; d. 1999, Los Angeles, CA, b. about 1877, Cabell County, WV; d. 1959, Barboursville, WV, b. 1864, Staten Island, NY; d. 1957, West Hazleton, PA, b. 1919, Union, SC; d. 2007 Isle of Palms, SC, b. 1866, New Orleans, LA; d. 1951, San Francisco, CA, b. . 1873, Warwickshire, England; d. 1952, Tryon, NC, b. 1904, Anderson, TN; d. 1992, Nashville, TN, b. 1868, Cincinnati, OH; d. 1935, Cincinnati, OH, b. 1901, Louisville, KY; d. 1952, Louisville, KY, b. Songsheet featuring the lyrics of the John Brown Song, later called John Browns Body. Julia Ward Howe wrote new lyrics for the melody, producing The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which became the anthem of U.S. forces during the Civil War. 1900, New York, NY; d. 1977, Blowing Rock, AR, D'Alessio, Theresa Hilda Fellman [a.k.a. 1904, Charleston, SC; d. 1995, Charleston, SC, b. 1895, Franklin, LA; d. 1975, New Orleans, LA, b. 1881, Abemarle County, VA; d. 1959, New Orleans, LA, b. Brown and his allies engaged in battle with pro-slavery forces throughout the summer of 1856, becoming a ruthless leader whom southern slaveholders feared and northern abolitionists admired. 1858, Dayton, OH; d. after 1915, possibly in San Diego, CA, b. 1909, Ashe County, NC; d. 2007, Ashe County, NC, b. 1906, Birmingham, AL; d. 1972 (buried Birmingham, AL), b. This large painting by Curry is a large study for the artists mural in the rotunda of the Kansas State Capitol. 1898, Baltimore, MD; d. 1988, Baltimore, MD, Orr, Helen LaFrance (see LaFrance, Helen Orr), b. Museum Information and Tours. 1907, Parkersburg, WV; d. 1968, Los Angeles, CA, b. 1875, Savannah, GA; d. 1952, Asheville, NC, b. 1852, Holly Springs, MS; d. 1935, Holly Springs, MS, b. 1906, Torrington, England; d. 1994, Cookeville, TN, b. 1889, Cynthiana, KY; d. 1958, Fayette County, KY, b. 1931, Aberdeen, MS; d. 1988, Memphis, TN, b. 1908, Savannah, GA; d. 1991, Savannah, GA, b. 1859, Jefferson County, TN; d. 1931, Knoxville, TN, b. 1898, Ridley Park, PA; d. 1973, St. Petersburg, FL, b. 1895, Jackson, MS; d. 1978, Jackson, MS, b. 1874, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1955, Clearwater, FL, b. The term "tragic prelude" for this period of Kansas history is attributed by Curry to his champion, the newspaper editor William Allen White. 1880 Charleston, SC; d. 1952, Beaufort, SC, b. 1892, Washington, DC; d. 1960, Indianapolis, IN, b. 1868, St. Louis, MO; d. 1948, Clearwater, FL, b. 1901, Titusville, PA; d. 1995, Philadelphia, MS, Dickinson, Eleanor Evelyn Vaughn Creekmore, b. Madman. 1908, Rockingham County, NC; d. 1997, Spruce Pine, NC, Tracy, Lois Rachel Bartlett Walker (Bartlett Tracy), b. Rich in symbolism, the painting depicts a fierce John Brown holding a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. 1913, Louisville, KY; d. 1998, Louisville, KY, b. 1917, Madison, GA; d. 1987, Gaffney, SC, b. 1889, Wetzel County, WV; d. 1981, Clarksburg, WV, b. 1909, Jackson, MS; d. 2001, Jackson, MS, b. 1878, Lone Oak, TX; d. 1949, Boulder, CO, b. But, as the country expanded west to territories across the Mississippi River, with American settlers displacing the Indigenous inhabitants and forming new states, that balance began to falter. 1887, Americus, GA; d. 1948, Macon, GA, b. 1828, Attleboro, MA; d. 1908, Washington, DC, b. In May 1856, Brown led his sons and three other men in what came to be known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, a three-day rampage during which they murdered five members of the pro-slavery territorial district court in front of their families, hacking them to death with broadswords. 1873, Chesterfield, NH; d. 1958, Washington, DC, b. the IP address from which you access our website (an IP address is the number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web); the type of browser and operating system used to access our site; the Internet address of the website from which you accessed our site. Albers, Annelise "Anni" Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, Burroughs, Victoria Margaret Taylor {Goss}, Catlett, Alice Elizabeth/Elizabeth Alice {White} {Mora}, Clark, Kate Freeman [a.k.a. 1890, Summit, MS; d. 1980, Jackson, MS, b. 1945, Lexington, GA; d. 1984, Athens, GA, b. 1896, Washington, MS; d. 1975, Athens, GA, b. Kansas was then the site of a territorial civil war known as Bleeding . 1866, Charleston, SC; d. 1936, Charleston, SC, b. 1888, Goodman, MS; d. 1970, Quitman, MS, b. 1918, Covington City, VA; d. 2006, Kilmarnock, VA (b. Henderson, NC), b. 1902, Savannah, GA; d. 1964, Savannah, GA, b. 1913, Mobile, AL; d. 2005, Franklin, TN, b. 1824, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1905, Chattanooga, TN, b. 1897, Washington, DC; d. 1980, Green Valley, AZ, b. Washington, DC; d. after 1940, possibly in New York, NY, b. 1894, Scranton, PA; d. 1975, West Palm Beach, FL, b. 1901, Haifa, Syrian Arab Republic; d. 1992, Huntington, WV, b. 1878, Rome, GA; d. 1966, Birmingham, AL, b. 1803, Liverpool, England; d. 1883, New York, NY, b. 1901, Washington, DC; d. 1995, Washington, DC, b. 1898, Washington County, IA; d. 1964, Baldwin County, GA, b. 1883, Louisville, KY; d. 1973, Winter Park, FL, b. 1877, Louisville, KY; d. 1969, Louisville, KY, b. Ranking on the Billboard album chart as high as #174, the Kansas album in the months subsequent to its release in the spring of 1974 sold over 135,000 units. 1886, Regina, Canada; d. 1959, St. Petersburg, FL, b. 1875, Washington, DC; d. 1963, Tucson, AZ, b. 1889, Jefferson, AL; d. 1984, Demopolis, AL, b. 1919, Asheville, NC; d. 2012, Greensboro, NC, b. 1884, Frankfort, KY; d. 1965, Frankfort, KY, b. 1897, Spartanburg, SC; d. 1988, Nashville, TN, b. 1887, Minneapolis, MN; d. 1977, Alexandria, VA, b. 1874, Richmond, VA; d. 1956, Richmond, VA, b. 1888, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1947, Washington, DC, b. 1898, Chicago, IL; d. 1982, Bluefield, WV, b. 1922, Norwich, CT; d. 2015, Greenport, NY, b. 1872, Benton County, TN; d. 1967, New York, NY, b. 1890, Chelsea, KS; d. 1980, Kensington, MD, b. 1887, Brooklyn, NY; d. 1960, St. Petersburg, FL, b. 1868, Baltimore, MD; d. 1943, Takoma Park, MD, b. 1914, Goliad, TX; d. 1986, Pecos County, TX, b. 1897, Washington, DC; d. 1983, Gloucester, MA, b. 1871, St. Paul, MN; d. 1956, St. Paul, MN, b. 1889, Wilkes-Barre, PA; d. after 1962, possibly in Vineyard Haven, MA, b. 1905, Washington, DC; d. 1987, Big Sur, CA, b. 1899, Blackstone, VA; d. 1990, Wilmington, NC, b. His actions contributed to such paranoia among slaveholders about the future of slavery in the United States that, In the first half of the 19th century, the U.S. government worked to maintain the balance of political power between free and slave states by ensuring that their numbers remained equal. 1872, Washington, DC; d. 1968, Washington, DC, b. 262. 1920, Roanoke, VA; d. 2012, Coral Springs, FL, b. The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, American Painting in the Twentieth Century. 1894, Spartanburg, SC; d. 1984, Spartanburg, SC, b. 1860, New York, NY; d. 1942, Washington, DC, b. 1881, Kendall, NY; d. 1987, Washington, DC, b. 1879, Hawkinsville, GA; d. 1981, Brooklyn, NY, b. 1897, Pass Christian, MS; d. 1975, Pass Christian, MS, b. 1872, Washington, DC; d. 1941, Charlottesville, VA, b. 1866, New Orleans, LA; d. 1916, New Orleans, LA, b. 1892 or 1893, KY; d. 1981, Louisville, KY, b. 1927, London, England; d. 2008, Brooklyn, NY, b. Public domain data for this object can also be accessed using the Met's Open Access API. The memorial represents the confident and watchful pioneer mother protecting her children. Oil on canvas, Dimensions: In the foreground, men wearing the uniforms of soldiers on each side of the Civil War lay dead at Browns feet. 1853, Savannah, GA; d. 1907, Northhampton, MA, b. 1859, Memphis, TN; d. 1944, Memphis, TN, b. 1870, Nashville, TN; d. 1947, Winchester, TN, b. 1868, Lyons, NY; d. 1943, Vicksburg, MS, b. 1875, West Milton, OH; d. 1952, New Orleans, LA, b. 1906, Altus, AR; d. 1989, Bernalillo, NM, b. 1913, Waynesboro, PA; d. 1968, Norfolk, VA, b. 1895, Washington, DC; d. 1975, Washington, DC, b. 1917, Guilford County, NC; d. 2002, Greensboro, NC, b. 1922, Bigheart, OK; d. 2013, Lake Charles, LA, b. 1862, Etowah Cliffs, GA; d. 1947, Savannah, GA, b. 1901, Meadville, MS; d. 1988, Baton Rouge, LA, b. 1896, Fort Brady, MI; d. 1985, Washington, DC, Sayre, Zelda (see Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre), b. Now numbering over two thousand names of established, exhibited female practitioners, this index is not comprehensive and is emphatically not presented as such. 1903, Beloit, KS; d. 2006, Jacksonville, FL, b. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, John Brown devoted his life to opposing the extension of slavery in the 1850s into the Kansas Territory in battles that presaged the Civil War, which began in 1861. 1890, Indianapolis, IN; d. 1961, Nashville, TN, b. 1910, Griffin, GA; d. 2001, Penn Valley, CA, b. 1876, Richmond, VA; d. 1960, Charlottesville, VA, b.