Gene Boyer: Carl Sandburg

Artist: Gene Boyer

Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1977
Image Size: 13 by 14 inches
Overall Size: 16.5 by 16.5 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Cold Press Illustration Board

Many Americans think of Carl Sandburg as only a great poet. Yet he was far more than that. Over six decades he established himself as an accomplished historian, social commentator, and folklorist, as well as a unique and affirmative "poet of the people." Born in Galesburg, Illinois, Sandburg left school after the eighth grade for a succession of odd jobs that took him through much of the Midwest. After serving as an infantryman in the Spanish-American War, he enrolled at Lombard College in Galesburg, but left without graduating. Later, he moved to Chicago to pursue a career in journalism. In 1914 came a dramatic turn in his writing endeavors -- his poem "Chicago" made a well-received debut in the influential magazine, Poetry. Inspired by his success as a poet, he began work on a project he had been contemplating since his boyhood, the monumental six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940. Sandburg chose to be one with the common man, immersing himself in the mainstream of life, feeling the storm and the calm as one of many in the great human family. The small town of his birth, the prairie, the plain life of the Midwest, and the austerity and hard work of his youth, all reappeared later in his writing. He observed and commemorated the American people like no poet before him had ever done.

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