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

Love's Melancholy

1866
Constant Mayer
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: death, family, home, landscapes, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War, women

Mountain Brook

1863
Albert Bierstadt
The Art Institute of Chicago

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

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 Promised Land—The Grayson Family

1850
William S. Jewett
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: Causes of the War, children, family, landscapes, paintings, portraits, pre-war, Westward Expansion, women

Hunter Mountain, Twilight

1866
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: death, Hudson River School, landscapes, mourning, paintings, post-war, Remembering the War

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

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

1863
Alexander Gardner
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, landscapes, photographs, soldiers, The Military Experience, Union

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg

1863
Timothy O'Sullivan
The Art Institute of Chicago

Tags: battles, Confederate, death, landscapes, photographs, 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

Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon

1864
Thomas Moran
Terra Foundation for American Art

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

Our Banner in the Sky

1861
Frederic Edwin Church
Terra Foundation for American Art

Tags: Causes of the War, flag, landscapes, paintings, The Election of 1860 and Secession, Union

The Hudson River at West Point

1864
Alfred Thompson Bricher
Terra Foundation for American Art

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

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Image Gallery (12 total)

Love's Melancholy

Mountain Brook

Old Virginia Home

The Promised Land—The Grayson Family

Hunter Mountain, Twilight

Army of the Potomac—Sleeping on Their Arms

Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter

A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg

Antislavery Picnic at Weymouth Landing, Massachusetts

Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon

Our Banner in the Sky

The Hudson River at West Point