Interesting contrasts, at least.
I love the “County Election” painting of George Caleb Bingham, showing an election in 1852, the year incumbent President Millard Fillmore could not get even the nomination of his party. I love the tension of Norman Rockwell’s painting of the 1944 election in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with tensions we see only in retrospect. (That post also shows real tensions in a family, in the election of 1948, in another Rockwell painting).
What else does the world of art show about elections in America? What do you think?
Illustration from Harper’s Weekly, November 7, 1857, showing election persuasion at the polls – politicians trying to buy votes. Library of Congress collection
If bribery didn’t work, there was always plain old fisticuffs.
Fighting at the polls. Illustration from Harper’s Weekly, November 7, 1857. Library of Congress collections
Here’s an unusual ritual, portrayed about the 1892 contest between…
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