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 "Majestic In His Wrath" Frederick Douglass Image Size 11" x 15" Release Date: February 2001 Edition size 500: 50 A/P: 25 P/P Price: Regular edition of 500: $140.00 Unframed plus $10.00 Flat shipping Price: Regular edition of 500: $300.00 Handsomely and professionally Framed plus $40.00 shipping “MAJESTIC IN HIS WRATH” Frederick Douglass  “MAJESTIC IN HIS WRATH” Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was born in Maryland under the archaic and evil specter of slavery, around 1818. Douglass believed that his white slave master was his father, but like so many other blacks born into slavery, their fathers never acknowledged them as their legal offspring or recognized their date of birth. He surreptitiously taught himself to read and write and escaped to the north in 1838. He initially settled in Boston, then moved to Rochester NY. Douglass immediately began speaking out against slavery and became the leading spokesman for the rights of blacks in America. My portrait of Frederick Douglass was created from several photographs, with the primary source a photo from the National Portrait Gallery at The Smithsonian Institution. At first glance, Douglass appears angry, but that anger fueled a passion that focused his life’s work on freeing his people from the injustice of slavery. This dichotomy of anger and passion is described by Woman’s Suffragette, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as she recalled a speech by Douglass before an anti-slavery meeting in Boston. “He spoke with burning eloquence, with wit, satire and indignation he graphically described the bitterness of slavery and the humiliation of subjection..... Around him sat the great antislave orators of the day, earnestly watching the effect of his eloquence on that immense audience, that laughed and wept by turns, completely carried away by the wondrous gifts of his pathos and humor. All the other speakers seemed tame after Frederick Douglass. He stood there like an African prince, majestic in his wrath.” In 1863 Abraham Lincoln spoke highly of Douglass when he said: “Considering the conditions from which Douglass rose, and the position to which he had attained, he is in my judgment, one of the most meritorious men in America.” In his portrait I wished to express the passion and the emotional intensity of a man, who clearly wears on his face, the scars wrought by the hardship of 20 years of slavery. By focusing on the dignity and regal bearing that permeates his expression, Douglass’s great physical and emotional strength dominates the drawing that I titled “Majestic In His Wrath”. Paul R. Martin III “What we now want is a country - a free country - a country not saddened by the footprints of a single slave, and nowhere cursed by the presence of a slaveholder. We want a country which shall not brand the Declaration of Independence a lie. We want a country whose fundamental institutions we can proudly defend before the highest intelligence and civilization of the age.” Frederick Douglass New York Tribune January 14, 1864 | President Lincoln | Gen. George Meade | Gen. George Pickett | Gen. Samuel Garland | Gen. Jesse Reno | Gen. R. E. Lee | Frederick Douglass | Joshua Chamberlain | Stonewall Jackson | | Gettysburg Series | Great American Portrait Series | WWII Series | Revolutionary War Series | Civil War Series | West Point Series | Banners Of Glory Series | | Return Home | Limited Edition Prints | About us: Bio/Exhibits | 9-11 Fund Raiser | What's New | Contact Us | Events Schedule | Friends- Preservation Links | Mini Prints, Notecards, Posters | book covers | |
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