Original Drawings of the Civil War by Winslow Homer

About the exhibition

The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester presented Winslow Homer’s original Civil War drawings in 1925. The documented sheets record soldiers, horses, military positions and the routines of campaigning, using graphite and, in some examples, watercolor. Examples securely identified in the museum’s object histories are Winslow Homer’s Officers and Horses at Rest (1864; graphite on wove paper) and Winslow Homer’s Intrepid [recto] (1862; graphite on straw paper). The connected works form a partial checklist; exact opening and closing days are not established by this evidence.

Also recorded as: Original Drawings of the Civil War by Winslow Homer, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York