Chester Alan Arthur 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Presidents of the United

The Presidents of the United States: Washington 1789 to Fillmore 1850 — a gallery lithograph assembling the republic's first thirteen executives

Tomorrow's Metropolis: A Prophecy in Steel and Sky is a visionary rendering of Manhattan as the Jazz Age imagined it would become — setbacks stacked into cliff-faces

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

issued in the year a bullet at a Washington railway station would cut his presidency to mere months — the lithograph carries the steady gaze of a man the country had only just begun to read

Chester Alan Arthur 1881 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Presidents of the UnitedChester Alan Arthur 1881 a presidential portrait of the unlikely gentleman from New York, elevated from the Custom House to the White House by Garfield's assassin's bullet. The lithograph carries the full whiskered dignity of the Gilded Age executive, a man who reformed the spoils system that made him. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional