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From the Introductions thread:
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Just popping in to say I'm looking for a US Civil War Composer and Artist Study....I'm just saying.  |
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I'm looking for contemporaries around this time, even if they aren't American. I have one American artist I was going to use, Winslow Homer, but he only portrayed Union soldiers. Were there any good Southern artists?
This timeframe overlaps with Realism and beginning of Impressionism. So...
It's not artist, per se, but the photograph sure does make a strong statement during this time.
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This article talks about Civil war artists and also the fact that there is less Confederate art and why. But it also compiles a lot of information on what there is from Confederate artists. There is a lot of info to glean from the article with rabbit trails on the artists. I'm going to continue to add to ideas here in the thread.
I definitely would consider the photographers like Mathew Brady as "artists" of the era. It is just a different form of art - photography became prominent during this period in history and brought the war into the the lives of civilians in a very real way, like never before. So it definitely warrants study - if not in art study per se then as a separate focus. The print illustrators employed by the newspapers are also someone I would study in a Civil War art study. The process involved in the sketch, to woodcut, to print plate, to newspaper is fascinating. It is portrayed really well in the Taylor Morrison picture book, Civil War Artist. Fictional artist but a great living picture book on the topic.
Civil War field artists/illustrators who worked as correspondents included, Winslow Homer, Alfred Waud, Henri Lovie, Edwin Forbes. Some were enlisted as war correspondents. Others worked for specific newspapers or magazines.
Found this great display of art from the Civil War and Reconstruction Era - Stories of War and Reconciliation, 1860–1877. Includes some specific Civil War pieces but most just covering everyday life around that time. Gives a good perspective on the times as well as the styles of art.
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I always think of Winslow Homer. We did do a study here on him that is in this past thread. He worked as a Civil War illustrator before going on to gain fame post Civil War.
Home Sweet Home by Winslow Homer, 1863
The Veteran by Winslow Homer, 1865
The Sharpshooter by Winslow Homer, 1862
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Conrad Chapman was actually a Confederate soldier artist and was known for his depictions of the Civil War, in particular a series of thirty-one oil paintings depicting the forts and batteries in the area of Charleston, South Carolina. Jenn, they are on display at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond - sounds like it would be worth a field trip. Interesting article on Chapman and the display.
You can see the complete works that are on display here. You can zoom into the pictures and really see the detail. It's very cool.
Conrad Chapman Paintings and Resources at MOC
The H. L. Hunley by Conrad Chapman,
The Flag of Fort Sumter by Conrad Chapman, 1864
Great story about how an original of his was recently found in a shed in Oregon.
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Albert Bierstadt was known as a landscape artist and one of the major painters of the American west in the 1800s, accompanying several explorations into the western territory to collect material for his work. His landscapes are gorgeous - but I may be biased by love of the western landscape images. During the Civil War his trips to the west were interrupted. In October 1861, Bierstadt received a five-day pass to observe Union troops. For the next two years Bierstadt painted several paintings of war scenes.
Guerrilla Warfare: Picket Duty in Virginia by Albert Bierstadt, 1862
He later painted The Bombardment using newspaper accounts of the bombing of Fort Sumter in Charleston.
The Bombardment by Albert Bierstadt, 1863
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This is just fabulous, Mary! Thank you! My initial searches kept coming up short.
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Yes, Mary, fabulous! I was thinking of Winslow Homer, but my knowledge of art is slim indeed.
Jennifer, Stephen Foster seems to be the most obvious composer choice.
Also, while not coinciding timeline wise, I would think that studying Aaron Copeland would make sense. He was the first composer to find a "sound" that was uniquely American, and part of that was capturing the essence of the American folk music that emerged during the preceding century.
Samuel Barber is another American composer that drew heavily from the folk music of that era.
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The 2nd South Carolina String Band has a 2 volume CD set where they are live in concert. Before each song, they give a description of it and who the composer is. I think it is called Lightin' in a Jar. The 2nd South Carolina is our favorite Civil War band by far. There's a band from Tennessee that is our second favorite. Can't remember their name.
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My library has a wonderful book, Songs and Stories of the Civil War by Jerry Silverman.
It covers songs of the Civil, giving history on the songs, and then provides the music to play on the piano. Nicely illustrated, very informative.
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