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Winslow Homer: "Prisoners from the front"
This painting is an actual scene from the war in which a "Union officer, Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow (1834-1896), captured several Confederate officers on June 21, 1864. The background depicts the battlefield at Petersburg, Virginia" (Homer. W, 2009). -
Winslow Homer: The Old Mill
Many women were forced to work after the Civil War because of economic necessities. This picture shows women starting their work day fashionably dressed with their lunch pails in one hand, while walking across a bridge to the dark mill. This is where times were getting hard and women needed to work in order to provide for their families, thus working. -
Paul Wayland Bartlett: "Woman Knitting"
This picture is an interpretation of a woman knitting, which embodied the period's fascination with the domestic lives of women. People were thought to know women as being domesticated in the household and this picture is showing off the fascination of that. -
Ralph Albert Blakelock Moonlight: "Indian Encampment"
This picture dipicts a group of Indians surrounding a fire, while one figure is pondering the illumination in the sky. This artwork shows off the time Blakelock would visit the Western territories to think that Indians represented to him a romantic evocation of a lost Eden. It represents much more than Indians surrounding a fire, but the enjoyment of one another while another in pondering the beautiful view. -
Robert Henri: "Portrait of Willie Gee"
This painting is of an African American boy by the name of Willie Gee. He can be seen holding an apple wearing rumpled clothing. He was a son of a slave in Virginia and had moved to the north. His detailed to work can show this boy as being humble. Henri, breaks away from the dominant stereotypes of African Americans found in visual culture.- Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ -
William Glackens: “Chez Mouquin”
Mouquin's a restaurant in New York was frequented by Glackens and his friends. This restaurant was what seemed to be an upscaled fashionable restaurant. Jeanna Mouquin the focal point of the painting is dressed esquitedly with eye-catching brushstrokes, with a mysterious look on her face. "Criticized for its unabashed depiction of men and women drinking together, At Mouquin's suggest the pleasures and the perils of modern life" (Entry, Essential Guide, 2013, p. 46.) -
John Sloan: "Cover: The Masses"
Sloan commemorates the Ludlow Massacre, when Colorado National Guard troops and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards were attacked, striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, in April 1914. It shows a miner shooting back at troops who murdered his family. This was a time of tragedy so by Sloan showing off what had happened proves there was a place and time horrible, horrific times have happened.
