War News from Mexico, artistic depiction of US public reaction to news from war against Mexico, oil on canvas painting by Richard Caton Woodville Sr., Düsseldorf, 1848.
This scene shows a range of reactions to news from the warfront. The artist here is capturing the mixed reaction to the Mexican-American War by the general public in the United States and the intense debates about the merits of the war in the first place. In addition, the various groups represented in the painting also point to issues at the time: universal white male suffrage, women's exclusion from voting, and the enslavement of African-Americans.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.
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