Presentation
Part 2: Peter Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.”
Part 3: Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville“
Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a brief history of Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Petersburg
Part 5: Theories for the diverging sets of planks in the lower portion of Homer’s painting
Part 6: Discussion of several features in the painting: gourds, the building, the woman’s clothes and her mixed race lineage
About the Presenter
Peter H. Wood is an emeritus professor of American history at Duke University. A former Rhodes scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of several books on early American slavery, including Black Majority, published by Knopf in 1974, and Strange New Land, published by Oxford University Press in 2003. Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War (Harvard University Press, 2010) is his third book on Black images in the work of Winslow Homer. Professor Wood’s Emory lecture was presented on February 22, 2011.