Before the Civil War, the Mexican-American War as prelude

Painted for a divided US, people from North and South could identify with this image—others remain marginalized.

Richard Caton Woodville, War News from Mexico, 1848, 布面油畫, 68.6 × 63.5 厘米 (水晶橋美國藝術博物館, Bentonville, 阿肯色州). 揚聲器: 博士. Mindy Besaw, curator, 水晶橋美國藝術博物館, 和博士. 史蒂文糖