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Course: Art of the Americas to World War I > Unit 7
Lesson 5: Realism in the United States- Becoming a city: daily life in 1820, Brooklyn
- John Wesley Jarvis, Black Hawk and His Son Whirling Thunder
- Mount, Bargaining for a Horse
- John James Audubon, The Wild Turkey
- Asher B. Durand, Kindred Spirits
- Richard Caton Woodville, War News from Mexico
- Before the Civil War, the Mexican-American War as prelude
- Face to face with the voters: Bingham's Country Politician
- Frederic Church, The Natural Bridge, Virginia
- Blythe, Justice
- Martyr or murderer? Hovenden's The Last Moments of John Brown
- The Civil War: putting Liberty front and center
- Johnson, A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive Slaves
- Mending America, women and the Civil War
- Cotton, oil, and the economics of history
- Eakins, The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
- Heroes of modern surgery: Eakins' Dr. Gross and Dr. Agnew
- Eakins, The Gross Clinic
- The U.S. Civil War, sharpshooters, and Winslow Homer
- Winslow Homer, Army Teamsters
- Winslow Homer, Taking Sunflower to Teacher
- Homer, The Life Line
- Homer, The Fog Warning (Halibut Fishing)
- Homer, Northeaster
- Winslow Homer, Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
- Brown, View of the Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
- The closing of the frontier and The Fall of the Cowboy
- The Radical Floriography of Sarah Mapps Douglass
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Winslow Homer, Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba
Winslow Homer, Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba, 1902, oil on canvas, 77.5 x 128.3 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) on display in the exhibition, "1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific" at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Speakers: Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, Acting Senior Historian, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Smarthistory.