Black History Through Bees. A white artist/painter and his depictions of African Americans during and after the Civil War.
The Busy Bee" is a watercolor and gouache on paper painting executed in a soft pastel and earth toned palette and depicting a boy, standing in a field of flowers, wooden bee boxes behind him, swinging his hat to swish away a bee, by American artist Winslow Homer. This piece is from the reconstruction era. While in Virginia in the 1870s Homer begin to work on a series of paintings depicting the lives of those newly freed from slavery but still struggling against the obstacles of entrenched bigotry. Instead of caricatures, he depicts quiet moments in the everyday lives of the newly freed African-Americans. There is no underlying moralistic tale or narrative storyline that artist presents, but in a manner similar to Veteran in a New Field and Snap the Whip!, Homer creates the impression of an observed moment in time. Many of his works of the Reconstruction era, Homer leaves the fate of the characters to find resolution in the minds of the viewer.
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