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News from the Front: Winslow Homer, Race and the Civil War

Art History Presentation by Frances K. Pohl

News from the Front: Winslow Homer, Race and the Civil War

In this illustrated presentation, renowned art historian Frances K. Pohl investigates several paintings by Winslow Homer that attempt to represent the complex roles of African-Americans during the Civil War. 

Pohl holds the Dr. Mary Ann Vanderzyl Reynolds Professorship in the Humanities and is a professor and chair of art history at Pomona College. Her interests include U.S. art and politics in the 20th century and feminist art. Her major textbook, Framing America, A Social History of American Art, integrates her continental approach to American art, with coverage of New France and New Spain as well as New England. She has also examined the work of U.S. artists who have traveled to Mexico and Mexican artists who have worked in the United States.

Admission is free. Made possible by a grant from Multicultural Programs and the Campus Diversity Initiative. Sponsored by the Art Department’s Art History Program, the History Department, and the Sarah W. Heath Center for Equality and Justice in association with the Thousand Oaks Library and the Thousand Oaks Reads, One City, One Book program.

Image: Winslow Homer, Prisoners from the Front, 1866, oil on canvas, 24x38 inches. Gift of Mrs. Frank B. Porter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Sponsored By
Art Department's Art History Program, the History Department and the Sarah W. Heath Center for Equality and Justice

Contact

Christine Sellin
csellin@CalLutheran.edu

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