Storming the Ramparts: Objects of Evidence October 18, 2009

This exhibition, curated by artist and writer William Dunlap in collaboration with the Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Memorial Hall, is centered around a painting, 'Storming the Ramparts' by Gilbert Gaul, a late 19th-century artist known for his depiction of military subjects, particularly those of the Civil War. Many of the objects shown in the painting's well as those that could have been found at the battlefield will be on loan from the collection of the Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Memorial Hall.