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Winslow Homer and the critics in the 1870s.(painter)(Brief Article)
When Winslow Homer exhibited Prisoners from the Front (Pl. II) at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866, the thirty-year-old Boston native received the highest praise of any artist in the exhibition. [1] Such success was quite extraordinary, for even though he had an established reputation as an illustrator, Homer had only been painting seriously for about five years. The Civil War canvas was applauded because, as the artist and critic Eugene Benson (1837-1908) noted in the New York Evening Post, it was "[the most] comprehensive art work that has been painted to express some of the most vital facts of our war." [2] What the critics appreciated most was ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 17, 2002 700+ words
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...Vacations and the History Channel offer "Civil War Trail," a nine-day journey from New York to Washington, D.C. Battlefield tours...the Confederacy and National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. Also on the itinerary are the Amish...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 15, 2008 700+ words
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- "Him on the One Side and Me on the Other": The Civil War Letters of Alexander...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History RAMAGE, JAMES A. February 1, 2001 700+ words
...Me on the Other": The Civil War Letters of Alexander Campbell, 79th New York Infantry Regiment and...the Union army in the Civil War. The editors of all three...Alexander Campbell of the 79th New York Infantry Regiment, and...
- Civil War hero Captain James Smith honored in New York and Washington.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 22, 1986 700+ words
/ADVANCE/ NEW YORK, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- A near-forgotten Civil War naval hero and a Congressional...of the Naval Station of New York, in delivering the first...in 1881. John Irwin, New York State chairman of the Ancient...
- The Civil War journal of Lt. Russell M. Tuttle, New York Volunteer...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2006 700+ words
0786423315 The Civil War journal of Lt. Russell M. Tuttle, New York Volunteer Infantry. Tuttle, Russell M. Ed. by George...Tuttle's experiences fighting in the army during the Civil War, beginning with its onset in 1861 to his service from...
- Diary of a Yankee Engineer: The Civil War Story of John H. Westervelt,...
- History: Review of New Books Sutherland, Daniel E. March 22, 1998 700+ words
...Yankee Engineer: The Civil War Story of John H...Westervelt, Engineer, 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Corps New York: Fordham University...enlisted in the 1st New York Engineers in September...letter collections of Civil War soldiers. Westervelt...
- Glory Was Not Their Companion: The Twenty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry in...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2005 700+ words
...4 Glory was not their companion; the Twenty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Taylor, Paul. McFarland & Co., [c]2005...regimental roster listing the 1,812 men who served. For Civil War aficionados.