Yale historian Alan Trachtenberg discusses battlefields in the paintings of John Ransom Phillips and the photography of Mathew Brady.
He raises the question—Do paintings give us a truth deeper than the promise of photography?
A exhibition tour led by John Ransom Phillips will follow the lecture.
Albany Institute of History and Art 125 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12210 518 463 4478 www.albanyinstitute.org
Currently on view: Ransoming Mathew Brady: Re-Imagining the Civil War Recent Paintings by John Ransom Phillips June 19–Oct 3, 2010
Abandoned Heart at Pea Ridge (March 7, 1862) John Ransom Phillips, 2007, oil on canvas; Gettysburg, Pa.Dead Confederate soldier in Devil’s Den, 1863, Brady Studio
