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War: Ulysses S. Grant
Acrylic on board
Artist: Mark
Hess
Art director: Richard Sheaff
First day of issue: June 29, 1995
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Mark Hess conveys the casual familiarity of General
Grant in this portrait based on an 1864 photograph.
Hess replaced a tent in the original background with
a landscape, and he added mother-of-pearl buttons to
Grant’s shirt on the recommendation of experts.
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