Fort Sumpter

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Title

Fort Sumpter

Creator

Richard J. LeFevre (1931 - 2000)

Format

watercolor and mixed media on paper

Description

LeFevre has used the misspelling “Fort Sumpter” which was found in many 19th Century references including an April 1851 article published by the New York Times.

On April 12-14, 1861, the first shots of what would become the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter located in the Charleston Harbor across from Charleston, South Carolina. When newly commissioned Confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard (shown on the lower right side of the painting) opened fire at 3:30 a.m., the fort was garrisoned under the command of U.S. Major Robert Anderson (shown on the left of the painting). The two stars shown in the lower portion of the painting represent the stars of the Bonnie Blue Flag, the state flag of South Carolina. The red line along the bottom is simply a shock device I often use in my paintings.

Source

Bequest of the Artist

Collection

Citation

Richard J. LeFevre (1931 - 2000), “Fort Sumpter,” Ewing Gallery Permanent Collection, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ewinggallery.omeka.net/items/show/197.