Art
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War
- When
Oct 12, 2009 – Jan 31, 2010
Daily
- Where
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St, 212.535.7710) Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
- FREE
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Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow Homer paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, on view now through January 24, 2010.
To download the podcast, click here.
Image: Winslow Homer, 1836–1910. Pitching Quoits, 1865. Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Haines Curtiss. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Photograph by Katya Kallsen
