The well known version of this painting is not the original, which was damaged during a studio fireand destroyed during World War II when it was too large to shelter from an allied bombing run overBremen.
The well known version of this painting is not the original, which was damaged during a studio fireand destroyed during World War II when it was too large to shelter from an allied bombing run overBremen. The artist of this work shanghaied his friend Worthington Whittredge to pose as the mainfigure after finding all the available (*) German models unsuitable. On the strength of the success of thispainting, its artist was commissioned to paint a mural for the U.S. Capitol Building in which a mantriumphantly stands on a rock formation as pioneer men and women move from the right to the left. Thispainting by the artist of Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way features James Monroe holding ahistorically inaccurate flag. For 10 points, name this Emanuel Leutze painting in which an Americangeneral travels to the Battle of Trenton.
The well known version of this painting is not the original, which was damaged during a studio fireand destroyed during World War II when it was too large to shelter from an allied bombing run overBremen.
Washington Crossing the Delaware