At the time of the Civil War ... heritage. The war changed all that. By the beginning of the second year, Harper had hired top talent—including Alfred Waud, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Nast ...

After the Civil War pictures, there followed a ... Today it hangs in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the best known picture Winslow Homer ever did. When some anxious ladies complained ...

click image for close-up At the end of the Civil War, black and white Southerners confronted the reconstructions of their society. American artist Winslow Homer painted A Visit from the Old ...

Two Winslow Homer paintings that were recently appraised ... era which celebrate rural innocent life in the wake of the Civil War. In terms of calculating the estimate, Christie's took into ...

A Sewanee woman and her daughter found themselves sitting on their hands at a Christie's auction in New York City in January, trying not to accidentally bid while they were gawking at the going rate ...