Artwork Details
- Title
- Surrender of a Confederate Soldier
- Artist
- Date
- 1873
- Location
- Dimensions
- 19 3⁄8 x 15 1⁄2 in. (49.2 x 39.4 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Nan Altmayer
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Figure group
- Occupation — military — soldier
- History — United States — Civil War
- Object — other — flag
- Object Number
- 2012.23
Artwork Description
Works by this artist (283 items)
Videos
In this podcast, curator Eleanor Jones Harvey discusses 6 featured paintings from The Civil War and American Art exhibition. This episode looks at Surrender of a Confederate Soldier by Julian Scott. The Civil War and American Art examines how America's artists represented the impact of the Civil War and its aftermath. The exhibition follows the conflict from palpable unease on the eve of war, to heady optimism that it would be over with a single battle, to a growing realization that this conflict would not end quickly and a deepening awareness of issues surrounding emancipation and the need for reconciliation. Genre and landscape painting captured the transformative impact of the war, not traditional history painting.