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E x p l o r e t h e C i v i l Wa r :
The Themes

When we look at the Civil War, we come face to face with people
whose lives affected and were affected by the conflict.

In The Blue and The The spatial
Gray you see impact of Grooms’s
portraits of Union large-scale work,
generals Grant, Lincoln On the Hudson,
Sherman, and Custer makes it visceral as well
as well as Confederate as visual. Grooms’s
generals, among them viewers become, in
Lee and Jackson. Other a sense, part of his
faces are those of polit- artwork. Grooms said,
ical leaders, soldiers in In many ways the
the ranks, and femme visitor to the piece
fatale spies for both actually becomes the
sides. A small poignant true figurative element,
painting of black sol-
diers is titled Group of
Contrabands, the term
for people who escaped
slavery to reach Union
lines. Another painting
shows black soldiers at
the Union garrison at
Fort Negley.

Red Grooms.
Major General Custer, 1999
Pauline Cushman, Actress
and Union Spy, 2010

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