The Civil War and American Art
Nov. 16, 2012 – April 28, 2013
Checklist
1. Winslow Homer
Defiance: Inviting a Shot Before Petersburg, 1864
oil on panel, 12 x 18 inches
Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society purchase and Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Fund
2. Winslow Homer
Sharpshooter, 1863
oil on canvas, 12 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches
Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Gift of Barbro and Bernard Osher
3. Albert Bierstadt
Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War, 1862
oil on panel, 15 1/2 x 18 5/8 inches
The Century Association, New York
4. Winslow Homer
Skirmish in the Wilderness, 1864
oil on canvas, 18 x 26 1/4 inches
New Britain Museum of American Art, Harriet Russell Stanley Fund
5. Sanford Robinson Gifford
Twilight in the Catskills, 1861
oil on canvas, 27 x 54 inches
Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Joanne and John Payson in memory of Joan
Whitney and Charles Shipman Payson (Class of 1921) and in honor of Joan Whitney
Payson (Class of 2009)
6. Martin Johnson Heade
Approaching Thunder Storm, 1859
oil on canvas, 28 x 44 inches
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs.
Erving Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1975
7. Frederic Edwin Church
Meteor of 1860, 1860
oil on canvas, 10 x 17 1/2 inches
Collection of Ms. Judith Filenbaum Hernstadt
8. Frederic Edwin Church
Our Banner in the Sky, 1861
oil on paper, 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches
Collection of Fred Keeler
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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9. Winslow Homer
The Bright Side, 1865
oil on canvas, 12 3/4 x 17 inches
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
10. Winslow Homer
Home, Sweet Home, about 1863
oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons’ Permanent Fund
11. Winslow Homer
The Brierwood Pipe, 1864
oil on canvas, 16 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
12. Conrad Wise Chapman
Battery Laurens Street Charleston Feb 7th 1864, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
13. Conrad Wise Chapman
Fort Sumter [Gun Gallery] Dec 8th 1863, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
14. Conrad Wise Chapman
White Point Battery Charleston Dec. 24th 1863, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
15. Sanford Robinson Gifford
Basin of the Patapsco from Federal Hill, Baltimore, 1862, 1862
oil on paper, 8 3/16 x 13 1/2 inches
Frank M. Gren, “Annapolis Collection”
16. Sanford Robinson Gifford
Preaching to the Troops, or Sunday Morning at Camp Cameron near Washington,
May 1861, 1862
oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
The Union League Club of New York
17. Sanford Robinson Gifford
Camp of the Seventh Regiment, near Frederick, Maryland, July, 1863, 1864
oil on canvas, 18 x 30 inches
New York State Military Museum, New York State Division of Military and Naval
Affairs
18. Sanford Robinson Gifford
Bivouac of the Seventh Regiment, Arlington Heights, Virginia, 1861
oil on canvas, 18 x 30 inches
New York State Military Museum, New York State Division of Military and Naval
Affairs
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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19. Sanford Robinson Gifford
Fort Federal Hill at Sunset, Baltimore, 1862
oil on canvas, 18 x 32 inches
New York State Military Museum, New York State Division of Military and Naval
Affairs
20. Sanford Robinson Gifford
Sunday Prayers (Study For Sunday Morning in the Seventh Regiment Camp), 1862
oil on canvas, 7 x 12 1/4 inches
Private Collection
21. John Gadsby Chapman
Evening Gun, Fort Sumter, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
22. Conrad Wise Chapman
Submarine Torpedo Boat H. L. Hunley Dec 6 1863, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
23. Conrad Wise Chapman
Fort Sumter, Interior, Sunrise, Dec. 9 1863, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
24. Conrad Wise Chapman
Battery Simkins Feb 25 1864, 1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
25. Conrad Wise Chapman
The Flag of Sumter, Oct 20 1863, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
26. Conrad Wise Chapman
Battery Bee, Dec. 3, 1863, 1863--1864
oil on board, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia
27. John Reekie
A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, April 1865
albumen print, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Museum purchase and partial gift of Carol L.
Kaufman and Stephen C. Lampl in memory of their parents Helen and Carl Lampl
28. Timothy H. O’Sullivan
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, July 1863
albumen print, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Museum purchase and partial gift of Carol L.
Kaufman and Stephen C. Lampl in memory of their parents Helen and Carl Lampl
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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29. Alexander Gardner
President Lincoln on Battlefield, Antietam, October, 1862
albumen print, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Museum purchase and partial gift of Carol L.
Kaufman and Stephen C. Lampl in memory of their parents Helen and Carl Lampl
30. Alexander Gardner
Confederate Dead, Antietam (Dunker Church in background), September 19, 1862
albumen print, 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter
P. Chrysler, Jr.
31. Alexander Gardner
Confederate Dead in a Ditch on the Right Wing Used as a Rifle Pit, Antietam, 1862
albumen print, 8 x 7 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter
P. Chrysler, Jr.
32. Alexander Gardner
Day After the Battle, Antietam, 1862
albumen print, 8 x 7 inches
Chrysler Musem of Art, Norfolk, Va., Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter P.
Chrysler, Jr.
33. Alexander Gardner
Bloody Lane, Confederate Dead, Antietam, September 19, 1862
albumen print, 3 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter
P. Chrysler, Jr.
34. Alexander Gardner
Confederate Dead at Antietam, September 19, 1862
albumen print, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter
P. Chrysler, Jr.
35. Alexander Gardner
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg, July 1863
albumen print, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Museum purchase and partial gift of Carol L.
Kaufman and Stephen C. Lampl in memory of their parents Helen and Carl Lampl
36. Andrew Joseph Russell
Confederate Dead, Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg, May 4, 1863
albumen print, 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter
P. Chrysler, Jr.
37. Conrad Wise Chapman
The Fifty-ninth Virginia Infantry---Wise’s Brigade, about 1867
oil on canvas, 20 1/8 x 33 7/8 inches
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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38. Winslow Homer
Trooper Meditating Beside a Grave, about 1865
oil on canvas, 16 1/8 x 8 inches
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. Gift of Dr. Harold Gifford and Ann Gifford
Forbes
39. Julian Scott
Surrender of a Confederate Soldier, 1873
oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Nan Altmayer
40. Eastman Johnson
Negro Life at the South, 1859
oil on linen, 37 x 46 inches
The New-York Historical Society, The Robert L. Stuart Collection
41. Eastman Johnson
Card Players, Fryeburg, Maine, about 1865
oil on canvas, 18 7/8 x 29 inches
Private Collection
42. Eastman Johnson
The Old Mount Vernon, 1857
oil on board, 23 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, Purchased with funds courtesy of an anonymous
donor and the Mount Vernon Licensing Fund, 2009
43. Eastman Johnson
The Lord Is My Shepherd, 1863
oil on wood, 16 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan
44. Thomas Moran
Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, 1862
oil on canvas, 34 x 44 inches
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of Laura A. Clubb
45. Eastman Johnson
A Ride for Liberty—The Fugitive Slaves, March 2, 1862, 1862
oil on board, 21 1/2 x 26 inches
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, The Paul Mellon Collection
46. Frederic Edwin Church
The Natural Bridge, Virginia, 1852
oil on canvas, 28 x 23 inches
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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47. Robert S. Duncanson
Uncle Tom and Little Eva, 1853
oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 38 1/4 inches
Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Jefferson Butler and Miss Grace R. Conover
48. Winslow Homer
Dressing for the Carnival, 1877
oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1922
49. Jervis McEntee
The Fire of Leaves, 1862
oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches
Private Collection
50. Edward Lamson Henry
Presentation of the Colors 1864, 1869
oil on board, 25 x 34 inches
The Union League Club of New York
51. Eastman Johnson
Christmas-Time, The Blodgett Family, 1864
oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Whitney Blodgett, 1983
52. Winslow Homer
A Visit from the Old Mistress, 1876
oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
53. Winslow Homer
Prisoners from the Front, 1866
oil on canvas, 24 x 38 inches
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Frank B. Porter, 1922
54. Winslow Homer
The Cotton Pickers, 1876
oil on canvas, 24 1/16 x 38 1/8 inches
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Acquisition made possible through Museum
Trustees: Robert O. Anderson, R. Stanton Avery, B. Gerald Cantor, Edward W. Carter,
Justin Dart, Charles E. Ducommun, Camilla Chandler Frost, Julian Ganz, Jr., Dr.
Armand Hammer, Harry Lenart, Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Mrs. Joan Palevsky, Richard
E. Sherwood, Maynard J. Toll, and Hal B. Wallis
55. Winslow Homer
The Veteran in a New Field, 1865
oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 38 1/8 inches
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (18761967), 1967
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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56. Winslow Homer
Near Andersonville, 1865--1866
oil on canvas, 23 x 18 inches
Newark Museum, Gift of Mrs. Hannah Corbin Carter; Horace K. Corbin, Jr.; Robert S.
Corbin; William D. Corbin and Mrs. Clementine Corbin Day in memory of their parents,
Hannah Stockton Corbin and Horace Kellogg Corbin
57. Eastman Johnson
The Girl I Left Behind Me, about 1872
oil on canvas, 42 x 34 7/8 inches
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by Mrs.
Alexander Hamilton Rice in memory of her husband and by Ralph Cross Johnson
58. George N. Barnard
Battle Field of New Hope Church, Georgia No.2, 1866
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
59. George N. Barnard
Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 1/8 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
60. George N. Barnard
Rebel works in Front of Atlanta, Georgia No. 4, 1864
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 1/8 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
61. George N. Barnard
Rebel works in Front of Atlanta, Georgia No. 1, 1864
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
62. Edward Lamson Henry
The Old Westover House, 1869
oil on paperboard, 11 5/16 x 14 3/8 inches
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of the American Art Association
63. George N. Barnard
Ruins in Columbia, South Carolina No. 2, 1865
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 1/8 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
64. George N. Barnard
Columbia, from the Capitol, 1865
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 1/8 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
65. George N. Barnard
The “Hell Hole,” New Hope Church, Georgia, 1866
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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66. George N. Barnard
Scene of General McPherson’s Death, 1864 or 1866
vintage albumen print, 10 x 14 1/8 inches
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
67. John Frederick Kensett
Paradise Rocks: Newport, 1868
oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 29 7/8 inches
Newark Museum, Gift of Dr. J. Ackerman Coles
68. John Frederick Kensett
Sunrise among the Rocks of Paradise, Newport, 1859
oil on canvas, 18 x 30 inches
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
69. Frederic Edwin Church
Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866
oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 84 1/4 inches
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams
Collection
70. Frederic Edwin Church
Aurora Borealis, 1865
oil on canvas, 56 x 83 1/2 inches
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Eleanor Blodgett
71. Sanford Robinson Gifford
A Coming Storm, 1863, retouched and redated in 1880
oil on canvas, 28 x 42 inches
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection
72. Homer Dodge Martin
The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York, about 1862
oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, 30 1/8 x 50 inches
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
73. Frederic Edwin Church
The Icebergs, 1861
oil on canvas, 64 1/2 × 112 1/2 inches
Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Norma and Lamar Hunt
74. Frederic Edwin Church
Cotopaxi, 1862
oil on canvas, 48 x 85 inches
Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation
Fund, Gibbs-Williams Fund, Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Fund, Merrill Fund, Beatrice W.
Rogers Fund, and Richard A. Manoogian Fund
75. Albert Bierstadt
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California¸1865
oil on canvas, 64 1/2 x 96 1/2 inches
Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Birmingham Public Library
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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