Life in Camp, Part 2: Teamster
Medium
Color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. (10.4 x 6.1 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Jefferson Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson Burdick, 1947
Accession Number
47.91.25(200)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Created in 1864 during the height of the American Civil War, *Life in Camp, Part 2: Teamster* offers a into the everyday realities of military life. Winslow Homer, who served as a special artist-correspondent for *Harper’s Weekly*, captured scenes from Union encampments that were later reproduced as color lithographs by Louis Prang & Co. and Beadle & Co. This small print (just over four by two inches) depicts a teamster guiding horses, highlighting the essential yet often overlooked roles of support personnel who kept armies supplied and mobile. As a color lithograph, the work reflects the gr...
About the Artist
Winslow Homer|Louis Prang & Co.|Beadle & Co. · 1836–1910
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was one of America's greatest painters and a preeminent figure in 19th-century American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career as a commercial illustrator and Civil War correspondent for Harper's Weekly before becoming renowned for his powerful marine subjects and landscape paintings. His mastery of both oil and watercolor, combined with his uncompromising reali...