Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Abstract

In his book Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War, Peter H. Wood offers an in-depth exploration of Winslow Homer's painting "Near Andersonville" (1866). In this illustrated lecture at Emory University, Wood relates the history of this once-lost painting and Homer's relationship to the Civil War. His close reading relates the iconography of “Near Andersonville” to major military and political events of the Civil War and the 1864 presidential election.

Keywords

• Slavery
• @Emory
• Arts
• Civil War