Painted portrait of Telfair Hodgson

Item

Legacies Classification
Memorial Artwork
Memorial Type
Visual Work of Art
Memorial Context
Lost Cause
Memorialized Subject
Hodgson, Telfair
Title
Painted portrait of Telfair Hodgson
Background and Context
This portrait of Telfair Hodgson, first a professor in the Theological Department and then the third Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South, is among the historical portraits of the founders and officials of the University of the South hanging in Convocation Hall. Hodgson served in the Confederate Army and defended white supremacy in the decades after the Civil War's end.
Physical Description
Oil on fabric. Size: 48" x 60"
Creator/Participating Person(s)
Mrs. Rollinson Colburn
Date created, installed or dedicated
1890
Historical Period
1865-1890: Emancipation, Reconstruction and Resistance to Reconstruction
Campus Location
Convocation Hall
Location: Institution, City, State
University of the South; Sewanee, Tennessee

Position: 26 (33 views)