Life in Camp, Part 2: In the Trenches; Good Bye; Fording; Extra Ration; The Field Barber; The Girl He Left Behind Him; Drummer; A Deserter; Home on Furlough; The Rifle Pit; Teamster; Our Special
Medium
Color lithograph
Dimensions
each sheet: 4 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. (10.4 x 6.1 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Jefferson Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson Burdick, 1947
Accession Number
47.91.25(190–201)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This color lithograph series, created in 1864 by Winslow Homer in collaboration with publishers Louis Prang & Co. and Beadle & Co., captures intimate vignettes of Union soldiers during the American Civil War. Titled *Life in Camp, Part 2*, the set includes scenes such as “In the Trenches,” “The Field Barber,” “Home on Furlough,” and “The Girl He Left Behind Him.” Each small sheet, measuring just over four by two inches, portrays the daily rhythms of military life—from writing letters and receiving extra rations to moments of departure and return—offering viewers a ground-level view of the conf...
About the Artist
Winslow Homer|Louis Prang & Co.|Beadle & Co. · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...