Rainy Day in Camp
Winslow Homer American
Six years after the end of the Civil War, Homer created this painting from studies he had made during the siege of Yorktown in the spring of 1862 when he visited the front as an artist-correspondent. The red cloverleaf above Homer’s name on the barrel in the left foreground was the insignia of the First Division of the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac, of which the Sixty-First New York Volunteer Infantry—the unit to which the painter was assigned—was a part. One critic remarked that the bedraggled mule at the right “tells the whole story” of the war’s miserable conditions.
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