Civil War Curator Eleanor jones harvey gives a group of journalists a tour of the galleries and describes how the conflict transformed Photography And Art in ways that are not always obvious. This is part two of a twopart program. One of my favorites is an artist that oh, i would say next to none of you know much about and thats conrad wise chapman. Conrad is the radical confederate in the family. He is 21 years old when the war breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the United States specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a Landscape Painter and i think he and Sanford Gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if you look at Giffords Pictures and you look at chapmans pictures, there are a lot of parallels in the way that they handle the skies and the emotion and the little teeny tiny figures and theyre
And american art. View a slideshow of images at americanart. Si. Edu. Up next we visit the smithsonian american Art Museum where an exhibit features paintings and photographs created during the civil War Curator Eleanor jones harvey gives a group of journalists a tour of the galleries and describes how the conflict transformed Photography And Art in ways that are not always obvious. This is part two of a twopart program. One of my favorites is an artist that oh, i would say next to none of you know much about and thats conrad wise chapman. Conrad is the radical confederate in the family. He is 21 years old when the war breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the United States specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a Landscape Painter and i think he and Sanford Gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if
Breaks out conrad grew up in italy. And he ends up coming back to the United States specifically to fight he is that rabbit about all of this the nine little oil sketches in the matching frames that you see here are all his works conrad wise chapman is at his heart a Landscape Painter and i think he and Sanford Gifford actually are kind of doppelgangers for each other if you look at Giffords Pictures and you look at chapmans pictures, there are a lot of parallels in the way that they handle the skies and the emotion and the little teeny tiny figures and theyre better doing little ones than they are doing big ones because basically their Landscape Painters conrad his dad finally gets him reassigned away from the action. He shot. He shoots himself in the head at shiloh, which maybe one of those selfinflicted. You know stress moves. It doesnt obviously kill him. It just gets him out of action for a while and his dad basically appeals to the governor of virginia who is a general in the arm