1998-1999 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American Military and Wartime Art"

Resource Library 1998-1999 articles and essays with the topic "American Military and Wartime Art"

(above: Norman Rockwell, U.S. Army Teaches a Trade (G.I. Telegrapher), 1919, oil on canvas, 19 x 29 inches, Norman Rockwell Museum, NRM.1977.03. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Our articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Go to Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War (9/20/99), an Art Institute of Chicago exhibition that explores the idea of freedom as it was represented by various American artists during the Civil War period, on display through November 28, 1999. It highlights two recent major Art Institute acquisitions: John Quincy Adams Ward's sculpture The Freedman (1863) and Albert Bierstadt 's painting Mountain Brook (1863), both of which were featured attractions in the 1863 annual exhibition at New York's National Academy of Design. In addition to being critical successes at the time, each carried specific iconographic meanings related to the Civil War. Through a rich display of paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture, this exhibition probes how the concept of freedom -- as it related to the "great national conflict" and the burning issue of emancipation -- was seen by Americans before and during this crucial period in American history.

Go to The Irvine Museum Receives Gift of Arthur Beaumont Paintings (2/25/99), announcing a significant gift of forty six paintings and drawings by the noted artist Arthur Beaumont (1890-1978) from his son Geoffrey Campbell Beaumont. The distinguished collection, which has been exhibited throughout the country, will greatly increase the museum's existing holdings of works by this important California artist whose work bridged the transition from what is generally described as California Impressionism to the American Scene style of painting associated with the Depression.

Go to "A Splendid Little War" The Spanish-American War, 1898: The Artists' Perspective (2/25/99)

Go to George Bellows: The War Series (1/16/99)

Go to George Washington: American Symbol (12/4/98)

Go to The Civil War Naval Scenes of Xanthus Smith (9/98)

Go to Culture y Cultura: How the U.S.-Mexican War Shaped the West (5/25/98)

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