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Line-ups and Trenches [recto]
1864 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
About this artwork
This graphite drawing on tan paper captures a Civil War encampment scene with soldiers in the foreground and a fortified field in the background. It is a preparatory sketch created by Winslow Homer while he was documenting the front lines.
Did you know?
During the American Civil War, Winslow Homer was hired by Harper's Weekly to serve as a special artist-correspondent at the front. Unlike many battle painters of the era who focused on heroic, glorified charges, Homer specialized in the intimate, gritty, and often lonely experiences of the common soldier, as seen in these sketches.
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Line-ups and Trenches [recto]
Winslow Homer, 1864
