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Category Archives: Civil War

1. Carletta Carrington Wilson’s “letter to a laundress”

           Carletta Carrington Wilson addresses her  “letter to a laundress”  to her great great grandmother, but her profound photo/poem installation currently on view at the Kittredge Gallery in Tacoma  (only until September 29) honors the work of all those who, in her words, “took in wash.”   She found photographs of anonymous […]

   This entry was posted on September 7, 2018 and is filed under African American fiction, African American history, American Art, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Civil War, ecology, Uncategorized.

   Tags: "Letter to a Laundress" lynching, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Dorothea Lange, FSA photographers, Jack Delano, laundresses, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee

2. Eleanor Harvey’s groundbreaking exhibition The Civil War and American Art

   What we can learn from this art in the midst of the national trauma of the Civil War : I celebrate Eleanor Jones Harvey interpretations of Civil War paintings and photographs in her excellent exhibition and book “The Civil War and American Art”.

   This entry was posted on July 3, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Art in War, Civil War, Uncategorized.

   Tags: Civil War, Eastman Johnson, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Frederick Church, geological metaphors, Winslow Homer

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