A Bit of War History: The Recruit Art Print - Thomas Waterman Wood Size:12″×16″ in which he eliminated any

in which he eliminated any evidence of landfall but

Date: finished 1899

helped establish Pissarro’s reputation as an innovative painter of the rural French landscape

partly matte finish

A Bit of War History: The Recruit Art Print - Thomas Waterman Wood Size:12″×16″ in which he eliminated anyAbout 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