A Bit of War History: The Contraband Art Print - Thomas Waterman Wood france Artist: John Frederick Kensett (American

Artist: John Frederick Kensett (American

and commissioned Kidd to copy it and other of his bird subjects in oil for display in a traveling exhibition Audubon planned but never realized

this picture appears to be the record of an entirely imagined vision

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Audubon referred to it as "this great chieftain of the woodpecker tribe

A Bit of War History: The Contraband Art Print - Thomas Waterman Wood france Artist: John Frederick Kensett (AmericanAbout the Art: This work, painted at the close of the Civil War, forms a narrative triptych (84. 12a, b, c) of African American military service. In "The Contraband" (84. 12a)a term that referred to enslaved people who fled to Union lines at the beginning of the conflictthe self emancipated man appears in a U. S. Army Provost Marshall General office, eager to enlist. The Recruit (84. 12b) represents him as proudly ready for military service. In "The