A Ride For Life—Any Sacrifice to Reach a Second Term

Artist: Gillam, Bernard 1856-1896

Object Date: 1888

Full Collection: Doug Boilesen Collection

Object Type: Lithograph

Credit Line: OBJ-348-002. Doug Boilesen Collection. Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.

Context:

Gillam, Bernhard. Color lithograph A Ride For Life—Any Sacrifice to Reach a Second Term, 1888. Printed in Judge magazine. The scene depicts John G. Carlisle, a pro-business Democrat, driving President Grover Cleveland and Secretary of State Thomas Bayard in a sleigh, attacked by dogs or wolves, with American Industry, Civil Service Reform and other pledges to voters thrown over the side to the wolves. The scene is reminiscent of Adolph Schreyer's painting Troika Attacked by Wolves and Paul Powis's Sleigh with Trailing Wolves.