With him, the silence was immense.
I was inspired to sketch our 16th President after reading Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin's book about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln. I got the idea for the title of the piece from something Carl Sandburg said in his trilogy on the life of Lincoln.
17"x14" Brown Conte on Paper by Mary Jane Mara, after an 1863 photograph by Alexander Gardner
