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

Prisoners Stripped and Searched in the Snow at Camp Douglas

1893
John M. Copley
The Newberry Library

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, health, Illinois, illustrations, literature, post-war, prison, soldiers, The Military Experience, The Northern Homefront, Union

1864
Private Albert E. Myers
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, flag, home, Illinois, paintings, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, escape, Illinois, photographs, portraits, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

c. 1858-1864
John Alexander Logan
Chicago History Museum

Tags: children, family, generals, photographs, portraits, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union, women

1863
Albert Bierstadt
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: Hudson River School, landscapes, paintings, The Northern Homefront

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

1861
Winslow Homer
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

1865
Louis Kurz, Lithographer: Baker & Co.
Chicago History Museum

Tags: charity, Chicago, children, city, family, flag, health, Illinois, prints, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

1860
Attributed to William Thomas Law
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, city, flag, Illinois, paintings, politics, pre-war, The Northern Homefront

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, city, Illinois, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront

1866
Louis Kurz and the Chicago Lithographing Company
Chicago History Museum

Tags: Chicago, children, city, family, flag, home, Illinois, politics, post-war, prints, The Northern Homefront, women

c. 1860
J. Graff
Chicago History Museum

Tags: camp life, Chicago, flag, Illinois, paintings, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

1864
William Sidney Mount
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: charity, paintings, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union

1864
Thomas Moran
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: Hudson River School, landscapes, paintings, The Northern Homefront

1864
Winslow Homer
Terra Foundation for American Art

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