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, 布面油画, 68.6 × 63.5 厘米 (水晶桥美国艺术博物馆, Bentonville, Arkansas). 扬声器: 博士. Mindy Besaw, curator, 水晶桥美国艺术博物馆, and Dr. Steven Zucker