Civil war History

— until 11.03.18

On show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: ‘Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)’ by Kara Walker. A series of 15 prints based on the two-volume anthology published in 1866. Kara Walker’s medium, the eighteenth-century friendly paper silhouettes, are transformed into violent tableaus. Smithsonian American

Art, Washington DC

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