Back of an Army Wagon
Medium
figures
Classification
figures
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
Accession Number
1912-12-145-a
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Back of an Army Wagon *Winslow Homer (American, 18361910), 1862 Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr., Smithsonian American Art Museum Created in 1862 amid the American Civil War, Homer's *Back of an Army Wagon captures a poignant slice of wartime life. Homer, then a young artist and illustrator for *Harper's Weekly*, embedded with Union troops, sketching the raw realities of soldiers' existence. This work, classified among his figure studies, likely depicts the weary figures at the rear of a supply wagon—a common sight on muddy marches through Virginia battlefields—highlighting the human...