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The Lincoln Group of DC returns to Maggiano's for our December luncheon. This year's speaker is Michael Fowler, author of Calling the Fleeting Breath: Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Personage Through Art and Material Culture. 

Michael Fowler is Professor of Design and holder of the Mary Durban Toole Chair in Art at the University of South Carolina Aiken, where he teaches courses in fine art and graphic design. An accomplished artist himself, Fowler has exhibited his work in regional and national shows. His landscape paintings can be found in public and private collections around the nation. Fowler will discuss Lincoln through art and material culture using the perspectives of four different time periods. Lincoln's life, especially 1854-1865, comes under "Lincoln Tested." Following his assassination, a battle is fought for how to remember him in "Lincoln Promoted" (1865-1930). In "Lincoln Elevated" (1917-1945), Lincoln reaches heroic, mythical status. Then in "Lincoln Transfigured," (1946-present),…