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title:The Girl I Left Behind Me
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  date:
  
  label:Date
  content:ca. 1872


  name:
  
  label:Artist
  content:Eastman Johnson, born Lovell, ME 1824-died New York City 1906


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  label:Gallery Label
  content:A young girl stands on a promontory, her hair streaming in the wind. The path before her ends, so she must either retrace her steps or try to find a different way forward. Johnson called this painting The Girl I Left Behind Me, invoking an Irish ballad that was popular with both the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. In doing so, the artist opens the possibility that this young girl is doing more than waiting for the return of her husband. Her wedding ring, glinting in the light, speaks of commitment to her union, but is Johnson referring to her personal life or to the nation? The split-rail fence below her divides the landscape, and the fog surrounding her suggests a world fraught with ambivalence. She appears to wait for a sign of what will come next.

  
  label:Exhibition Label
  content:A girl stands on a promontory, her hair streaming in the wind. The path before her trails off, so she must either retrace her steps or try to find her way forward. Her wedding ring speaks to a commitment to her union and a husband who has gone to war. The split-rail fence below and the fog surrounding her speak to a world fraught with division and ambivalence. Johnson’s figure appears to be waiting for some sign of what will come next. The title comes from a Regimental song.

  
  label:Exhibition Label
  content:The Civil War and American Art, 2012

  
  label:Publication Label
  content:The Civil War defined America and forever changed American art. American artists of this era could not depict the conflict using the conventions of European history painting, which glamorized the hero on the battlefield. Instead, America's finest painters captured the transformative impact of the war. Through landscapes and genre paintings, these artists gave voice to the nation's highest ideals and deepest concerns — illustrating a time that has been described as the second American Revolution.

  
  label:Publication Label
  content:Smithsonian American Art Museum: Commemorative Guide. Nashville, TN: Beckon Books, 2015.


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  content:Figure female\full length

  
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  content:History\United States\Civil War

  
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  content:Landscape\weather\wind

  
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  content:Object\written matter\book


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  content:Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

  
  label:Department
  content:Painting and Sculpture

  
  label:On View
  content:Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2nd Floor, East Wing


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  content:Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice in memory of her husband and by Ralph Cross Johnson


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  content:Smithsonian American Art Museum


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  content:1986.79


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  content:Painting


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  physicalDescription:
  
  label:Medium
  content:oil on canvas

  
  label:Dimensions
  content:42 x 34 7/8 in. (106.7 x 88.7 cm.)



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   American Civil War (1861-1865)
   History

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