NEWBERRY AND TERRA FOUNDATION TO MOUNT CHICAGOS ONLY MAJOR SESQUICENTENNIAL CIVIL WAR EXHIBITION
Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North, September 27 through March 24
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the US Civil War and in conjunction with the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Newberry Library will mount Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North, an exhibition of more than 100 items that focuses on the enormous, and costly, effect the war had on civilians. Highlights of the exhibition include stunning paintings by Winslow Homer, Frederic E. Church, and other American artists of the period; first editions by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Louisa May Alcott; sheet music from Chicago-based music publishers Root and Cady; and magazine illustrations that depict the changing roles of women and children who supported the war effort. Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North is co-organized by the Newberry and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The exhibition is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Were pleased to partner with the Newberry on this exhibition examining the domestic side of life during the Civil War, an aspect of the era which generally receives less attention than the battlefields, said Terra Foundation for American Art President and CEO Elizabeth Glassman. Innovative projects like Home Front are crucial to our mission of fostering the exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States.
Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North will be open from September 27, 2013, through March 24, 2014, making it one of the longest running exhibitions in the Newberrys 126-year history. The exhibition will comprehensively examine the culture of the Northern home front through visual materials that illustrate the wars influence on household and the cotton economies; the ways in which the absence of young men from the home changed daily life; how war relief work linked home fronts and battle fronts; why Indians on the frontier were pushed out of the riven nations consciousness during the war years; and how wartime landscape paintings illuminated the nations past, present, and future.
American history and culture is a core strength area of our collection and of scholarship pursued at the Newberry for many decades, said Newberry President David Spadafora. This is especially true of the Civil War era, which of course is a critical part of the American story. We are very grateful to the Terra Foundation for American Art, whose curatorial expertise, collection, and financial support have made it possible for us to host this important exhibition and related public programming.
Throughout the exhibitions duration, the Terra Foundation and the Newberry will host a series of Civil War-related programs and events, including:
A Veterans Day Salute to Military Spouses
The Newberry and the Terra Foundation welcome Chicago-area families who constitute todays Home Front. The event includes brunch, a brief program, live Civil War-era music, and curator-guided tours of the exhibition.
Monday, November 11, 11 am
Conversations at the Newberry
David Blight and Doug Wilson
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lincolns Gettysburg Address, Blight and Wilson will discuss the language and rhetoric of President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
Thursday, November 21
Art History
John Davis
Race and Battlefield: Seeing and Not Seeing the Civil War
Thursday, January 16, 6 pm
Music of the Civil War
Performance of period music from exhibition with expert commentary
Saturday, March 1
Additional programming includes monthly curator gallery talks and a series of related adult seminars. With the exception of the Veterans Day event, all programs are free and open to the public, and require no advance registration.
Today, many Americans view war at a great distance, mediated by technology that makes it possible to avoid thinking about how war effects our daily lives, said Newberry Vice President of Research and Academic Programs and exhibition co-curator Daniel Greene. This was simply not the case for those who remained at home during the Civil War. This exhibition is designed to help visitors understand the enormous and lasting effect of the Civil War on those who experienced the war at home, as well as on the entire country.
In conjunction with the exhibition opening, the University of Chicago Press will publish a companion volume to Home Front, which will be the first book to explore the visual culture of a world far removed from the horror of war, yet intimately bound to it. The book includes a foreword by award-winning Civil War scholar Adam Goodheart and essays by five humanities scholars, including exhibition co-curators Greene and Peter John Brownlee, Associate Curator at the Terra Foundation.
The exhibition represents a beautiful marriage of objects from two well-regarded Chicago collections to address a subject of critical importance, Brownlee said. The pairing of fine and popular arts from the period makes this exhibition unique among others that examine the war and its impact.
The other three book authors are: Sarah Burns, professor of art history emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington; Diane Dillon, director of scholarly and undergraduate programs, the Newberry; and Scott Manning Stevens, director of the DArcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, the Newberry.
Serving the public as an independent research library since 1887, the Newberry hosts a collection focusing on Western Europe and the Americas and offers a wide array of programs. Its more than 1.5 million books, 5 million pages of manuscript, and 500,000 historic maps range from illuminated medieval works and rare cartographic treasures to rich genealogical resources and the papers of Midwest authors and companies. Each year more than 100,000 people visit the Newberry to conduct research, explore their families histories, take undergraduate or continuing education seminars, participate in teacher professional development programs, view exhibitions, listen to lectures, or attend other events.
Established in 1978, the Terra Foundation for American Art is dedicated to fostering the exploration, understanding, and enjoyment of the visual arts of the United States. With financial resources of more than $250 million, an exceptional collection of American art from the colonial era to the mid-twentieth century, and an expansive grant program, it is one of the leading foundations focused on American art, and devotes approximately $12 million annually in support of American art exhibitions, projects, and research worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.newberry.org
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