Hilary Harkness queers history starting with Winslow Homer's Civil War painting Prisoners from the Front. Winslow was inspired by his friend Francis Channing Barlow, a Union Army general. Harkness adds to her history painting a prosperous, landowning Virginian family, the Freemans. These small paintings center women as agents of action and are rich with details that challenge history paintings representation of sex, race, class and history itself.
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| Hilary Harkness Request to Quarter: General Francis Channing Barlow visits the home of Arabella Freeman (feat. her brother Charles) 2019, 12 x 15 3/4" |
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| detail: Request to Quarter |
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| Hilary Harkness, Forest Cemetery 2021, 18 1/4 x 24 1/2" |
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| detail: Forest Cemetery |
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| detail: Forest Cemetery |