about The Last Civil War Veteran

American artist Larry Rivers was an early Pop artist whose blended tenets of Abstract Expressionism and Figurative imagery.

"This Last Civil War Veteran" was done from a photograph that appeared in Life magazine of the vet in his coffin with a Marine guard. When it appeared, Ray Parker, the artist, sent it to me with a note reading ’Go!’ He wanted me to do something with it, make a painting of it. He knew that somehow this had become a subject of mine." -excerpted from the book Larry Rivers by Sam Humter