Preparing for the March
1862 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
About this artwork
This drawing depicts a group of Civil War soldiers gathering with their equipment in preparation for a march. It is executed in charcoal on a brown-toned paper.
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Winslow Homer was sent to the front lines of the American Civil War as a special correspondent for Harper's Weekly magazine. His sketches from this period captured the daily lives of soldiers with a documentary-like honesty, avoiding the overly romanticized depictions common in other war art of the time.
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Preparing for the March
Winslow Homer, 1862
