Salud Johnny
oil on linen
76 x 36 inches
price: 11,000.

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From the series, The Lincolns: Portraits of Hugh Goffinet

Ramparts
oil on linen
24 x 30 inches
SOLD

From the series, The Lincolns: Portraits of Hugh Goffinet

No Parasan
oil on linen
48 x 30 inches
price: 7,500.

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From the series, The Lincolns: Portraits of Hugh Goffinet

A Great Battlefield
oil on linen
60 x 35 inches
Price: 7,500.

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High Water Mark
oil on linen
48 x 60 inches
Price: 12,500
SOLD

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Pietà
oil on linen
48 x 64 inches
Price: 12,500

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Good Friday
oil on linen
24 x 48
Price: 8,000.
SOLD

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Palm Sunday
oil on linen
36 x 24 inches
Price: 8,000.

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Union
oil on linen
24 x 36 inches
Price: 6,000.

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Old Field
oil on linen
12 x 24 inches
SOLD

Sharpshooter
oil on linen
16 x 20 inches
SOLD

Portrait of Aurora
oil on linen
84 x 48 inches
SOLD

This portrait of Civil War reenactor Aurora Schaar was painted from the 2017 Neshaminy Civil War Reenactment. In a croquet match hosted by artist William Blake, Schaar participated in a tableau of Winslow Homer’s croquet paintings. Like Diego Velasquez’s “Portrait of Pablo de Valladolid” and Edouard Manet’s “The Tragic Actor” she is a performer in black. The croquet match is a space to endlessly play through the past. The players play through war renewing the gestures of a national trauma. They gesture with respect and the desire to educate, to humble, and to play. This croquet is like the battle reenactment, the embalming demonstration, the Abolitionist speech reread… there will always be an uneasy intersection between entertainment and trauma as well as the presentation of the liminal space reenactment inhabits; between life/death, past/present, and simulation/reality.

Sharpshooter
oil on linen
16 x 20 inches
SOLD

"I was not a soldier but a camp follower and artist. The above impression struck me as being as near murder as anything I ever could think of in connection with the army & I always had a horror of that branch of the service." -Winslow Homer

Incredulity
oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches
Price: 5,200.

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Caravaggio painted The Incredulity of St. Thomas with Christ looking down as he pilots Thomas’ hand to his side. Not looking at Thomas or the others, but to his wound. He seems interested in the proof of his embodiment. He wants to know that this is real. He too, questions his body, his life and death.

Reenactment is a material culture where the feel of authentic wool is transformative. The closer you can recreate the “kit” of the authentic soldier the closer you are to that past. In the pursuit of touching the past there are questions- Is this real? Did this happen? Is this me? Is this us? The gesture of piloting a finger into the side are these repetitive questions.

Embalming
oil on linen
24 x 50 inches
Price: 4,200.

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Aurora
oil on linen
20 x 16 inches
Price: 1,800.

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Ulysses S. Grant
oil on canvas
40 x 26 inches
Price: 4,000.

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Clara Barton
oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Price: 1,800.

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Sketch for A Grand Review II
india ink on blue paper
18.5 x 13.5 inches
Price: 550.

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Study for High Water Mark
ink and chalk on paper
24 x 26 inches
SOLD

Croquet Sketch
india ink on paper
17 x 10 inches
Price: 225.

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Study of a Marine
charcoal and white chalk on toned paper
24 x 18 inches
SOLD

Caps
oil on linen
8 x 10 inches
SOLD

Wounded Marine Being Given a Drink from a Canteen
graphite on paper
17 x 22 inches
Price: 350.

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Cavalryman
oil on linen
30 x 15 inches
SOLD

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Embalming
oil on linen
16 x 20 inches
SOLD

Embalming
oil on linen

This painting depicts an embalming reenactment with reenactors John Plourde and John Austin. In the Summer of 2016, outside the Elmhurst Art Museum, William Blake embodied the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer as he performed a figurative painting demonstration with Union Cavalry reenactor John Plourde as the model. After the painting demonstration was completed, John Plourde was then theatricaly embalmed by reenactor Jon Austin as the embalmer Dr. Lyford. Jon Austin described the process of preserving soldier's bodies during the American Civil War. Both performances relied on the impact of the visual and use of the body as a document through time.