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T H E C I V I L WA R

Exhibitions and Programs

Fall 2016 - Winter 2017

The Civil War is the critical Red Grooms. Battle of Shiloh, 2014
turning point in the narrative
of America’s history. battle was fought in the North, the Battle
of Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania, but that
T does not mean that blood was not shed in
he war, often and famously depicted New York — it was, in the New York Draft
in film adaptations, documentary Riots of 1863. The strain, sacrifice, and loss
series, and countless novels, is a left by the war on all its fronts was felt in
subject that drums up specific and iconic the Northern states, just as in those in the
imagery. In three exhibitions, the Museum South. Many Northern cemeteries have
devotes its resources to exploring the Civil
War through a multi-layered approach
to foster greater understanding and
connections to our history.
In two of these exhibitions, Red
Grooms, renowned for his Pop art, focuses
on the human tale of the war. In his epic
battle scenes and small works of key
players from the conflict, and in a new sculp-
to-pictorama — a walkable diorama of the
singular historical moment when Lincoln
made his way to Peekskill — his works fill
the space of the Museum’s middle-level
galleries and set the scene that immerses
the viewer in the mindspace of this war. In
another exhibition, Grooms’s art is comple-
mented by historical documents, photo-
graphs, and artwork from the
Museum’s Permanent Collection.
So why explore the Civil War, here,
in New York? The Civil War is not just a
story of battles fought in the South. One
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