Buzzard's Roost Gap-Ga
Classification
figures
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Willis M. Rose
Accession Number
1947-87-8
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Buzzard's Roost Gap-G** (1887) by Theodore Davis captures a slice of late 19th-century American in Georgia's rugged terrain. Davis (1840–1894), a prolific illustrator and painter, gained fame for his on-the-spot sketches during the Civil War for *Harper's Weekly*, bringing vivid realism to historical events. By 1887, he turned his skilled eye to everyday scenes, and this work—classified among "figures"—likely depicts human subjects amid the dramatic landscape of Buzzard's Roost Gap, a striking natural pass in northern Georgia's Appalachian foothills. The artwork reflects the post-Civil War ...