The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, shared a new painting of the greatest American painter Stephanie Herdrich of the 19th century on their official Facebook account.
Stephanie Herdrich quoted in his painting that the painting makes him think of how predictable the seasons are: they only get what they put in. Stephanie Herdrich, the Met’s curator, started Winslow Homer’s career as a commercial printmaker in Boston and New York, where he was born on February 24, 1836.
He also added the Civil War; he was sent to the front in Virginia as an artist-correspondent for the brand-new illustrated journal Harper’s Weekly in October 1861. Like his prints, his earliest Civil War paintings, from around 1863, are anecdotal.
Paintings like “The Veteran in a New Field” show a deeper comprehension of the war’s impact and significance as it ended. “The Veteran in a New Field,” painted in the summer of 1865, not long after General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and President Lincoln’s assassination, is a deeply symbolic painting that is an elegiac tribute to what has been lost.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, more commonly referred to as “the Met,” is the most visited museum in the United States and the largest art museum in the Americas.
Over two million works are in its permanent collection, divided among 17 curatorial departments.
In 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was established to bring art and art education to the general public in the United States. The museum’s permanent collection includes art from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity, paintings and sculptures from nearly all European Old Masters, and a large group of American and modern art.
Byzantine, Islamic, African, Asian, Oceanian, and more can be found in the Met’s extensive collection. The encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, accessories, and old weapons and armour from all over the world can be found in the museum.
In its galleries, several notable interiors range from Roman architecture from the first century to contemporary American design.
