A bright new technology and a devastating naval battle during Spanish American War.
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. A conversation with Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, Acting Senior Historian, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Dr. Steven Zucker
