Encounters With Lincoln: Images and Words by Thomas J. Trimborn
January 11-June 13, 2008
The Lincoln Museum Store is sponsoring an exhibition of a unique collection of evocative Abraham 
Lincoln images by Thomas Trimborn. Mr. Trimborn’s work portrays Lincoln from an artist’s point of view. Abraham Lincoln was indeed a multidimensional man, and these portraits tell us his story – about the melancholy Lincoln, the extraordinary thinker, the avid reader, the lonely leader, the humorous storyteller, and more. As Lincoln authority Harold Holzer states, you will find a Lincoln “that few artists have dared to imagine”, a Lincoln that is “captured... moving beyond the constraints of photographic models.”
The original works in this exhibit, reproduced in his book Encounters With Lincoln: Images and Words published by the Truman State University Press, tell the Lincoln story anew in a way that continues to inspire.
Trimborn’s book, the original art, and a limited selection of prints of his work will be available for sale in the Museum Store.
Insuring Lincoln's Image February 8 — June 30, 2008
When the business boom of the 1920s came to a crashing halt on October 29, 1929, more than America’s economy tottered on its foundation. The Great Depression of the 1930s was both a cultural and an economic crisis. Businessmen in breadlines, farmers forced off the land, unemployed workers in the streets, families broken by poverty and despair—all threatened the American Dream.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal recognized the importance of rebuilding public confidence in American values. In the same spirit, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company commissioned a series of paintings portraying Abraham Lincoln’s honesty and hard work and his belief in equality, freedom, and the nation’s future. Lincoln had lived the American Dream and saved the American nation. What better inspiration for a nation in crisis? What better image to advertise a company whose motto proclaimed “its name indicates its character”?
These original paintings by Leone Bracker, Frederic Mizen, J.C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and Pruett Carter will be on exhibit in Insuring Lincoln’s Image from February 8 through June 8, 2008, at The Lincoln Museum.
Vote for Me: The Quest for the White House, 1788-2008March 29-June 29, 2008
In 2008, a presidential election year, the Friends of The Lincoln Museum will mount an interactive temporary exhibit based upon the history of Presidential elections. The exhibit will examine the electoral process as it has evolved over 220 years. It will explore: the nominating process; campaigns which focused on one or two major issues, as opposed to campaigns which were strictly driven by personality; and elections which took place during war.
The birth (Democrats and Republicans) and death (Mugwumps, Know Nothings, and Loco Focos) of specific political parties will be portrayed; and we will present a section devoted to the backgrounds of 
the men who eventually triumphed. We will also focus on several elections which changed the course of the nation.
Sponsored by: Leland and LaRita Boren, Crowe Chizek and Company, Depuy Orthopaedics, Dunsire Family Foundation, English Bonter Mitchell Foundation, John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, Vann Family Foundation, and The Lincoln Museum.
