The Brooks Forces Evacuating the State House at Little Rock
Date1895
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"A History of the Last Quarter Century," by E. Benjamin Andrews, in Scribner's Magazine, May 1895
MediumBlack and white oil on illustration board
Dimensions18 × 11 7/8 in. (45.7 × 30.2 cm)
frame: 20 1/4 × 14 in. (51.4 × 35.6 cm)
frame: 20 1/4 × 14 in. (51.4 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1915
Object number1915-23
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextPyle depicts a scene of an 1874 civil disturbance that followed the installation of Joseph Brooks as governor of Arkansas. Two years before, election fraud resulted in another candidate winning the governorship. When the court belatedly judged Brooks the winner, his allies forcibly took over the state capitol building. Brooks was one of a few advocates in Arkansas for granting full equality to Black citizens.
