C onsidered one of the leading American painters of the 19 Century, Winslow Homer began as a commercial illustrator and as an artist-correspondent during the American Civil War. Documenting soldiers both in battle and back at camp, his sketches, drafted in the field, were reproduced to illustrate the reports of the conflict in the periodical, Harper’s Weekly.
The exhibition aims to show how this experience helped shape his later career as a painter, and also to interrogate the moral responsibilities of artists working in war.
Winslow Homer: Eyewitness opens at the University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts, on 31 August.
