Taking+the+Oath+and+Drawing+Rations

Date: modeled 1865, patented 1866
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1882/1882.1.1_1a.jpg?itok=P9fAjs1a width="306" height="435" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/taking-oath-and-drawing-rations-21159"]] || Title: **Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations**

Artist: **John Rogers** Born: Salem, Massachusetts 1829 Died: New Canaan, Connecticut 1904

Medium: painted plaster Dimensions: 23 x 14 x 10 in. (58.4 x 35.5 x 25.4 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of John Rogers and Son

Accession: 1882.1.1 || //Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations// exemplifies the small genre sculptures for which John Rogers is best known. These statuettes, sculpted in plaster and painted a sandy color, portray individuals engaged in everyday activities. This particular sculpture is from Rogers's well-known Civil War series, in which a Southern woman and her young son must take the oath in order to receive food rations distributed by the Union Army. //Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations// illustrates the hardships endured by the masses throughout the Civil War.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Rogers - Reconstructing a Family <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">NYHS - John Rogers: American Stories
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