Periods, Cultures, Styles > Reconstruction era

Reconstruction era

Dates

1865–77

Places

North America > United States

Basics Works of Art Artists Periods, Cultures, Styles Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

The Lost Cause and Confederate memory

Memory and commemoration of the U.S. Civil War, an introduction

Abraham Lincoln and northern memory

Works of Art

Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Religious Liberty

1876

Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free

1867

Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker

modeled 1866, carved c. 1872

Winslow Homer, Taking Sunflower to Teacher

1875

Winslow Homer, Army Teamsters

1866

Nast & Reconstruction, understanding a political cartoon

1874

Samuel Colman, Jr., Ships Unloading, New York

1868

Lilly Martin Spencer, The Home of the Red, White, and Blue

1867–68

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Artists

Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker, modeled 1866, carved c. 1872, marble, 50.8 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Edmonia Lewis, The Old Arrow Maker, modeled 1866, carved c. 1872, marble, 50.8 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Lilly Martin Spencer

Moses Jacob Ezekiel

Sarah Mapps Douglass

William Wetmore Story

Timothy O’Sullivan

Cornwall Kirkpatrick

Wallace Kirkpatrick

Curated Guides to Reconstruction era

All Textbook Chapters Thematic Series

African American art and social justice

Textbook Chapter - Reframing Art History

Seeing America

Thematic Series

The U.S. Civil War in Art

Thematic Series