BU Founder’s Day event in Irwin Library, Feb. 7
Butler University’s Founder’s Day festivities on Feb. 7 will include the unveiling of an archival pigmented print of LINCOLN 200 YEARS, the Abraham Lincoln portrait that hangs in the History Department.
The unveiling ceremony will take place from 12:15-12:45 p.m. in the Irwin Library. It is open to the Butler community.
The event will include remarks by Greg Silver, who donated the original painting in honor of his father, David Silver ‘37, a longtime Butler University professor of history and government, and Melina Fox, the niece five generations removed of Butler University founder Ovid Butler.
Indiana artist James Wille Faust, who painted LINCOLN 200 YEARS in 2010, also will be on hand, and there will be a cake to celebrate the anniversary of Ovid Butler’s birthday.
Greg Silver commissioned Faust to paint a portrait of Lincoln because of the similarities between Ovid Butler and the 16th president.
-Both were well known as abolitionists – Butler at the state level and Lincoln at the national levei.
-Both were born into families whose religion believed in abolition.
-Both were lawyers, and both came from families that moved to Indiana within a year of each other (Lincoln in 1816, Butler in 1817).
Silver presented LINCOLN 200 YEARS to Butler University on Sept. 23, 2010.
The archival pigmented print—a high-quality computer print used for fine arts printing—will hang in the Irwin Library. It was made so more people would see Faust’s work.
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