Realism Abroad

America

Homer, Eakins and Tanner after the Civil War

American painters applied Realism to the decades after the Civil War: soldiers, schoolboys, a rower, a surgeon at work, a music lesson, and the sea.

• Homer's war and its aftermath
• Childhood and the sea
• Eakins's rowers and surgeons
• Tanner's banjo lesson

Works in this part

• Prisoners from the Front
• The Veteran in a New Field
• Snap the Whip
• The Gulf Stream
• The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
• Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic)
• The Banjo Lesson

Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain