The Civil War in Art : Teaching & Learning Through Chicago Collections

Our Watering Places—The Empty Sleeve at Newport

1865
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, post-war, prints, Remembering the War, soldiers, Union, women

News from the War

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, death, family, genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, mourning, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts

1861
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: genre scenes, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, The Northern Homefront, Union, women

Old Virginia Home

1864
David Gilmour Blythe
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, flag, freedom, genre scenes, home, landscapes, paintings, slavery

The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, camp life, death, genre scenes, health, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Our Women in the War

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, charity, genre scenes, health, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

Army of the Potomac—Sleeping on Their Arms

1864
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, illustrations, landscapes, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Winter-Quarters in Camp—The Inside of a Hut

1863
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Thanksgiving in Camp

1862
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: camp life, genre scenes, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

Antislavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

1845
Susan Torrey Merritt
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, children, family, flag, freedom, genre scenes, landscapes, paintings, politics, pre-war, Slavery and Abolition, women

On Guard

1864
Winslow Homer
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: children, family, genre scenes, paintings, portraits, The Northern Homefront

The Home of the Red, White and Blue

c. 1867-1868
Lilly Martin Spencer
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: charity, children, family, flag, genre scenes, health, home, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, soldiers, women

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Our Watering Places—The Empty Sleeve at Newport

News from the War

Filling Cartridges at the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts

Old Virginia Home

The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement

Our Women in the War

Army of the Potomac—Sleeping on Their Arms

Winter-Quarters in Camp—The Inside of a Hut

Thanksgiving in Camp

Antislavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

On Guard

The Home of the Red, White and Blue