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Artist: Edward Lamson Henry
Artist Dates: (Charleston, SC, Jan 12, 1841 - May 11, 1919, Ellenville, NY)
Title: City Point, Virginia, Headquarters of General Grant
Date: 1873
Dimensions: 30 1/8 in. x 60 1/4 in. (76.52 cm x 153.04 cm)
Medium: oil on canvas
Credit Line: museum purchase
Accession#: 1944.80

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land
Themes: Ecology
Periods and Styles: MLC Portfolio: Civil War
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Images and the Media

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

American Battle Painting 1776-1918, National Gallery of Art, 7/4/1944 - 11/18/1944
The Hopewell U.S.O., VA/Appomattox Manor, Hopewell USO and Appomattox Manor, 4/24/1945 - 5/4/1945
An Exhibition of Nineteenth Century Virginia Genre, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1/17/1946 - 2/13/1946
USO, Hopewell, VA, United Service Organiziations, 4/22/1946 - 4/29/1946
American Processional, 1492–1900, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 7/8/1950 - 12/17/1950
Campus Taste in Art [Student Taste in Art], Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/16/1951 - 3/12/1951
Artistic Highlights of American History, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1958 - 3/23/1958
The Civil War: The Artists' Record, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 11/18/1961 - 3/4/1962
Art in American History, Addison Gallery of American Art, 7/22/1962 - 10/28/1962
Winterfest '66 [version of Roots and Promise of American Art], Winterfest, 2/18/1966 - 2/27/1966
Paintings from the Addison Gallery Collection, Showcase Cinema, 3/28/1967 - 4/25/1967
The Painter and the New World: A Survey of Painting from 1564 to 1867, Marking t, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 6/8/1967 - 7/30/1967
The Noble James, The Valentine Musem, 1/18/1968 - 5/22/1968
Aspects of American Art History-Group Exhibition of Paintings Loaned from Coll, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/1/1968 - 11/15/1968
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/1983 - 5/1/1983
Ulysses S. Grant: The Man and the Image [U.S. Grant: The Man and the Image], National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 7/23/1985 - 5/4/1986
War and Commemoration: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/5/1989 - 6/11/1989
1/4" scale: Models of American Sailing Ships, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/25/1994 - 1/12/1995
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Framing America's Landscapes: Painting from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/20/1998 - 7/31/1999
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2/22/2000 - 3/26/2000
The Virginia Landscape, Virginia Historical Society, 7/13/2000 - 11/12/2000
Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry's Paintings of Past and Present, Yale University Art Gallery, 6/24/2005 - 8/6/2006
From the Front Line, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/9/2007 - 4/15/2007
Lee and Grant, Virginia Historical Society, 10/20/2007 - 3/29/2009
The Civil War: Unfolding Dialogues, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/15/2011 - 4/15/2012

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