THE CiVIL War IN Art

Timeline: The Civil War and American Art

• Smithsonian American Art: Civil War
• Civil War Art: Visual Propaganda
• Civil War Artists and the Press
  

Selections from Virginia:

Lincoln Speaks to Freedmen on the Steps of the Capital at Richmond
1963
Gus Nall
Oil on canvas
39.62 x 29.5 in.

Resurrection of Henry Box Brown 
1872
Unknown Artist (after a lithograph by Peter Kramer, 1851)
Engraving

A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive Slaves
1862
Eastman Johnson
Oil on paper board
55.8 x 66.4 cm

VMFA Classroom Activity
Realism in the United States

Slave Hunt: Dismal Swamp, Virginia
1862
Thomas Moran
Oil on canvas
85.73 cm x 111.76 cm
The Great Dismal Swamp and the Underground Railroad