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Story Archives: Lost and Found: Biedenharn exhibits Civil War painting


Lost and Found: Biedenharn exhibits Civil War painting
by Sunny Meriwether - posted Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 @ 12:00 pmE-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
A long-lost Civil War painting forms the centerpiece of a new exhibit opening at the Biedenharn Museum and Gardens this month. Museum Director Ralph Calhoun said the monthly Moonlight in the Garden event on Friday night, Aug. 3, will serve as the unofficial opening of Winslow Homer: A Lost Painting Found.

Homer was one of the foremost painters in America in the 19th century. He began his career as an illustrator for magazines such as Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated News Paper, beginning in the late 1850's. With the advent of the Civil War, he illustrated war news, and sometimes traveled with the Union army making sketches.

Calhoun likened the magazines to the CNN of the day because they provided the most up-to-date information on the war.

"Within a week of an event, people had illustrated articles about that event. That was really as fast as you could get something out to the public. So it was the cutting edge of the media at that time."
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