Home Front; Daily Life in the Civil War North

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These nine paintings from the Terra's collection are included in Chicago's only major exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The exhibition is on view at The Newberry Library September 27, 2013 – March 4, 2014.

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Fruit Piece: Apples on Tin Cups

William Sidney Mount

Date: 1864

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1999.100

Text Entries: The Spirit of the Fair. New York, New York: John F. Trow, 1864. Text p. 166 (checklist, as Apples and Tin Cups). Catalogue of the Art Exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair in Aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. New York, New York: John F. Trow, 1864. Text p. 18, cat. no. 347 (checklist, as Apples and Tin Cups). Catalogue of Paintings and Other Works Presented to the Metropolitan Fair in Aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. New York, New York: Geroge F. Nesbitt & Co., 1864. Text p. 10, cat. no. 136 (as Apples and Tin Cups). Frankenstein, Alfred. William Sidney Mount. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975. Text pp. 367, 379, 477. “Painting.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 5 (June 1977). Text p. 163. American Paintings III. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 1985. Text p. 14; ill. p. 14 (color). Atkinson, D. Scott et al. A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art. Edited by Terry A. Neff. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1987. Ill. p. 126, pl. T-17 (color). Weber, Bruce. The Apple of America: The Apple in 19th Century American Art. (exh. cat., Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc.). New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., 1993. Text p. 48 (checklist); ill. cover (color); p. 31, no. 17 (black & white). Fruit Piece: Apples on Tin Cups, William Sidney Mount. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, December 1996. Ill. (black & white). Brownlee, Peter John, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, and Scott Manning Stevens. Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North with a foreword by Adam Goodheart. (exh. cat., Terra Foundation for American Art and Newberry Library). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Text pp. 129, 135-36, 146, 155, 163 (checklist); ill. p. 128, fig. 75 (color). American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life. (exh. cat., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, High Museum of Art, Musée du Louvre and the Terra Foundation for American Art). Atlanta, Georgia: The High Museum of Art, 2014. Text pp. 23, 48, 50; ill. p. 49, cat. no. 5 (color). New Frontiers IV: Fastes et fragments. Aux origines de la nature morte américaine. (exh. cat., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, High Museum of Art, Musée du Louvre and the Terra Foundation for American Art). Atlanta, Georgia: The High Museum of Art, 2014. Text, pp. 24, 48, 50; ill. p. 49, cat. no. 5 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text pp. 86-87, 92; fig. 5, p. 87; ill. p. 92 (color).