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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Our Banner in the Sky

Frederic Edwin Church

Date: 1861

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

Object number: 1992.27

Text Entries: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., New York, New York (Sale Jo Ann, December 8, 1978): lot 24. Text p. 16; ill. lot 24 (color). Burke, Doreen Bolger. “Frederic Edwin Church and ‘The Banner of Dawn.” The American Art Journal 14, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 39–46. Text p. 40, n. 1. Hemphill, Christopher. "Daniel Terra and His Museum." Town & Country (February 1984): 193–206. Text p. 196; ill. p. 193 (color). Sokol, David M. "The Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois." The Magazine Antiques 126, no. 5 (November 1984): 1156–69. Text p. 1158; ill. p. 1158, Pl. VI (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. Text p. 137; ill. p. 137, pl. T-28 (color). Ragans, Rosalind. Art Talk. Mission Hills, California: Glencoe Publishing Company, 1988. Ill. p. 267. Our Banner in the Sky, Frederic Edwin Church. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, January 1991. Ill. (black & white). Kloss, William et al. America in Art: Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years. (exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art). Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1991. Text p. 26; ill. cover (color detail), p. 27 (black & white). Southgate, M. Therese. "The Cover." The Journal of the American Medical Association 266:1 (July 3, 1991): 27. Text p. 27; ill. cover (color). Southgate, M. Therese. "The Cover." The Journal of the American Medical Association Czechoslovakia (1992): 15. Text p. 15; ill. cover (color). Rawson, Cynthia. "Frederic Edwin Church." Art Education (September 1992): 27–28. Text p. 27; ill. p. 28 (color). Purves, Alan C. et al. ScottForesman Literature and Integrated Studies: American Literature. Glenview, Illinois: ScottForesman, 1997. Ill. p. 377. Walker, Andrew. "American Art & the Civil War." American Art Review 11, no. 5 (1999): 126–31, 207. Text pp. 127, 131, 207 n. 4; ill. p. 126 (color). Cartwright, Derrick R. The Extraordinary and the Everyday: American Perspectives, 1820–1920. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2001. Text p. 22 (checklist); ill. p. 31 (color). Cartwright, Derrick R. L'Héroïque et le quotidian: les artistes américains, 1820–1920. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2001. Text p. 22 (checklist); ill. p. 31 (color). Conn, Steven and Andrew Walker. "The History in the Art: Painting the Civil War," in "Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War." Special issue, Museum Studies 27, no. 1 (2001): 60–81. Text p. 74; ill. cover, p. 73 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. An American Point of View: The Daniel J. Terra Collection. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text p. 76; ill. p. 76 (black & white). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. Un regard transatlantique. La collection d'art américain de Daniel J. Terra. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text p. 76; ill. p. 76 (black & white). Kennedy, Elizabeth. "The Terra Museum of American Art." American Art Review (December 2002): 126–41. Text p. 131. Novak, Barbara. Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Text pp. 68-69; ill. p. 69, fig. 4.7 (black and white). Davidson, Susan, ed. Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation. (exh. cat., National Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Museum). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. Text p. 104; ill. p. 96, fig. 46 (color). Art In America: 300 years of Innovation. Hong Kong: Wen Wei Publishing Co. Ltd, 2007. (in Chinese) Ill. pp. 44–45 (color). Davidson, Susan, ed. Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation. (exh. cat., National Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Museum). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. (Chinese edition). Ill. p. 98 (color). Davidson, Susan, ed. Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation. (exh. cat., The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. (Russian edition). Ill. p. 77 (color). Davidson, Susan, ed. Art in the USA: 300 años de innovación. (exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum Bilbao). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. (Spanish edition). Ill. p. 90 (color). Harrison, Alfred C., Jr. “Frederic Edwin Church’s Our Banner in the Sky: An Update on an American Icon.” The Magazine Antiques 184, no. 5 (November 2008): 150–151. Text pp. 150, 151 n. 9. Sharp, Kevin. Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era. Memphis, TN: The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2009. Ill. p. 133 (color). Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA III: Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Chicago, Illinois: American Medical Association, 2011. Text p. 48; ill. p. 49 (color). Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, 2012. Ill. 2012 edition, front cover (color detail), back cover (color). Wilton, Andrew. Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch, (exh. cat. National Gallery, London). London, UK: National Gallery Company, 2013. Text pp. 19, 46; ill. p. 46, cat. no. 10 (color). Brownlee, Peter John, Sarah Burns, Diane Dillon, Daniel Greene, and Scott Manning Stevens. Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North. (exh. cat., Terra Foundation for American Art and Newberry Library). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Text pp. 4–5, 6, 7, 129, 160 (checklist), 169n4 ; ill. cover, p. 6, fig. 6 (color). Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865-1945. (exh. cat. Shanghai Museum with Art Institute of Chicago and Terra Foundation for American Art). Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, 2018. Text p. 14; ill. p. 15 (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 p. 61; ill. p. 61 (color).