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2/15/2010
Emanuel Leutze’s “Angel on the Battlefield” (1864) in Context

By Lisa N. Peters, Spanierman Art Blog

Emanuel Leutze’s Angel on the Battlefield of 1864 was recently returned to the gallery from the exhibition Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era.  Organized by Kevin Sharp, director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, the show was at the Dixon (July 5-October 4, 2009), and then traveled to the Katonah Museum of Art, New York (October 18, 2009-January 24, 2010).  Sharp set the ambitious goal of exploring the pattern of responses to the Civil War by examining the language of the poet Walt Whitman in relationship to American paintings on the subject of the war.  Through Whitman’s writings and through art, Sharp sought the pulse of the nation.

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