For those of us who travel down the Valley on occasion….
From VMI Communications and Marketing
An exceptional collection of art centered on the theme of the Civil War soldier is the subject of a new exhibit at the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park’s Hall of Valor Museum. Artists with firsthand knowledge of their subject painted all of the pieces during the years immediately following the war. Noted artists Julian Scott, Edwin Forbes, E. L. Henry, and John Rogers are represented in the collection. Over a period of 75 years, three generations of the Raeburn family of New York, N.Y., assembled this significant collection, which focuses attention on the individual soldier rather than great battle depictions.
Robert A. Raeburn presented the family’s art collection to the Virginia Military Institute on the occasion of the 50th reunion of his VMI class.
