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

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

1860
Cornelia Adele Fassett
Chicago Public Library

Tags: charity, Chicago, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincoln portraits, paintings, portraits, Union

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

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

1864
William Sidney Mount
Terra Foundation for American Art

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

July 6, 1861
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

Tags: charity, children, death, family, health, illustrations, newspapers and magazines, prints, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union, women

March 5, 1864
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library

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

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