Civil War

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Civil War Reconstruction

• 1861-1877

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Discussion at the Continental Arms 1861 Frederick
William Billing Born Eschwege, Germany 1835
Died Santa Cruz, California 1914 oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 19 7/8 in. (61.2 x 50.5 cm) Smithsonian
American Art Museum Gift of Mr. and Mrs.
MacKenzie Gordon 1991.177
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Lee Surrendering to Grant at Appomattox ca. 1870
Alonzo Chappel Born New York, New York 1828
Died Middle Island, New York 1887 oil on
paperboard 12 3/8 x 17 1/4 in. (31.4 x 43.8 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Nancy L.
Ross in memory of Patricia Firestone Chatham
1981.139 Smithsonian American Art Museum2nd
Floor, East Wing
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Thanksgiving in Camp, from Harper's Weekly,
November 29, 1862 1862 Winslow Homer Born
Boston, Massachusetts 1836 Died Prout's Neck,
Maine 1910 wood engraving on paper image 9 1/8 x
13 3/4 in. (23.2 x 34.9 cm) Smithsonian American
Art Museum The Ray Austrian Collection, Gift of
Beatrice L. Austrian, Caryl A. Austrian and James
A. Austrian 1996.63.51 Not currently on view
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Abraham Lincoln ca. 1945 William H. Johnson Born
Florence, South Carolina 1901 Died Central
Islip, New York 1970 oil on paperboard 36 1/4 x
33 3/8 in. (92.1 x 84.7 cm.) Smithsonian American
Art Museum Gift of the Harmon Foundation
1967.59.643 Not currently on view
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The Girl I Left Behind Me 1870-1875 Eastman
Johnson Born Lovell, Maine 1824 Died New York,
New York 1906 oil on canvas 42 x 34 7/8 in.
(106.7 x 88.7 cm.) Smithsonian American Art
Museum Museum purchase made possible in part by
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice in memory of her
husband and by Ralph Cross Johnson 1986.79
Smithsonian American Art Museum2nd Floor, East
Wing
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Untitled before 1950 Charles Pollock Born
Denver, Colorado 1902 Died Paris, France 1988
tempera on canvas mounted on fiberboard 20 1/2 x
28 1/8 in. (52.1 x 71.3 cm.) Smithsonian American
Art Museum Transfer from the Archives of American
Art, Smithsonian Institution 1975.94.4 Not
currently on view