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

On Guard

1864
Winslow Homer
Terra Foundation for American Art

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

The Hudson River at West Point

1864
Alfred Thompson Bricher
Terra Foundation for American Art

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

The Sanitary Fair at Brooklyn

March 5, 1864
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: charity, children, family, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, The Northern Homefront, Union, women

Negroes Leaving Their Home

April 9, 1864
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: African Americans, children, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, family, freedom, home, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, slavery

Weighing Out Rations

May 7, 1864
Edwin Forbes
Chicago Public Library

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

The Escaped Slave

July 2, 1864
T. B. Bishop (Photographer)
The Newberry Library

Tags: abolition, African Americans, emancipation, Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom, escape, freedom, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, portraits, prints, slavery, Union

Long Abraham Lincoln a Little Longer

November 26, 1864
Frank Henry Temple Bellew
Chicago History Museum

Tags: illustrations, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, newspapers and magazines, politics

A Nation's Loss

1865
Unknown Artist
Chicago Public Library

Tags: assassination, commemorations, death, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, mourning, portraits, prints

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

Sherman and His Generals

1865
George N. Barnard
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: commemorations, generals, photographs, portraits, post-war, The Military Experience, Union

John Jones

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, Chicago, freedom, Illinois, paintings, politics, portraits, Slavery and Abolition

Mary Richardson Jones

c. 1865
Aaron E. Darling
Chicago History Museum

Tags: abolition, African Americans, Causes of the War, Chicago, freedom, Illinois, paintings, portraits, Slavery and Abolition, women

Main Building of the Great North Western Sanitary Fair, Chicago

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

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

In Memory of Abraham Lincoln: The Reward of the Just

1865
D. T. Wiest
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, Classical, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, mourning, post-war, prints, Remembering the War

Funeral Car

c. 1865
Augustus Tholey
Chicago History Museum

Tags: assassination, city, death, Lincoln, Lincoln's funeral, mourning, prints

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