Resource person: Audra Bullard

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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, Smithsonian American Art Museum curator Eleanor Jones Harvey, author of “The Civil War and American Art,” explores the “metaphorical war.” Landscape painters, notably Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford, conveyed the mood of the nation as storms rose and volcanos erupted 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.

 

Eleanor Jones Harvey is senior curator of 18th and 19th century American art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She earned a BA with distinction in art history at the University of Virginia, and a PhD from Yale University. Dr. Harvey studies the intersection of landscape painting and American culture. In 2012 she organized “The Civil War and American Art,” which then traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and her most recent project was “Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture,” on view at SAAM during 2020 and 2021.

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