Here’s a preview of Civil War and American Art, opening at Washington’s Smithsonian American Art Museum on November 16. The exhibit will feature works by Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Sanford R. Gifford, Timothy H. O’Sullivan, and more.
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