Become a member and save up to 25% on your program registration price! Join today If you are already a member, log in to access your member price. The Civil War and American Art Evening Lecture/Seminar Monday, December 16, 2024 - 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Code: 1K0534 Location: This online program is presented on Zoom. Select your Registration Login $30 Member 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 $40 Non-Member Add to cart Log in to add this program to your wishlist! A 10% processing fee will be applied at checkout. Adding to your cart... Resize text The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson, ca. 1872 The Civil War had as profound and lasting an impact on American art as it did on American culture. Both genre painting and landscape painting were fundamentally altered by the war and its aftermath. In an illustrated lecture, Eleanor Jones Harvey, author of The Civil War and American Art and senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores the "metaphorical war." Landscape painters, notably Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford, conveyed the mood of the nation as storms rise and volcanos erupt in their paintings, while genre painters Winslow Homer and Eastman Johnson addressed the issue of slavery and asked hard questions about what kind of nation would emerge from the conflict. World Art History Certificate elective: Earn 1/2 credit* General Information View Common FAQs and Policies about our Online Programs on Zoom. *Enrolled participants in the World Art History Certificate Program receive 1/2 elective credit. Not yet enrolled? Learn about the program, its benefits, and how to register here.
