A Visit from the Old Mistress
| A Visit from the Old Mistress | |
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| Artist | Winslow Homer |
| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Condition | On display |
| Location | Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC |
A Visit from the Old Mistress is an 1876 painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It was one of several works that Homer created during a mid-1870s visit to Virginia, where he had served as a war correspondent during the Civil War.[1] Scholars have noted that the painting's composition is taken from Homer's earlier painting Prisoners from the Front, which depicts a group of captive confederate soldiers defiantly regarding a union officer.[2] It, along with Homer's other paintings of black southern life from this period, have been praised as an "invaluable record of an important segment of life in Virginia during the Reconstruction." [1]
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 Podcast: The Civil War and American Art, Episode 5, Smithsonian American Art Museum[3] |
References
- ^ a b Wood, Peter; Dalton, Karen (1989). "Winslow Homer's images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction years". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. 49 (3). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: 3–4.
- ^ Calo, Mary Ann (1980). "Winslow Homer's Visits to Virginia during Reconstruction". American Art Journal. 12 (1). Kennedy Galleries Inc.: 4–27.
- ^ "The Civil War and American Art, Episode 5". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved February 15, 2012.