More accurate view of George Washington crossing debuts at the New-York Historical Society

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Source: www.artdaily.org --- Sunday, December 25, 2011
NEW YORK (AP).- One of America's most famous images, a painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, got much of the story wrong: The American commander wouldn't have stood triumphantly on a rowboat in daylight, but on a ferry bracing himself against a fierce snowstorm on Christmas night. That's the historic scene depicted in a new painting that goes on display this week at the New-York Historical Society museum in Manhattan. "No one in his right mind would have stood up in a rowboat in that weather," artist Mort Kunstler said. "It would have capsized." He told The Associated Press that he's "not knocking the original" ? the well-known 1851 painting by German-born artist Emanuel Leutze, who Kunstler says "was glorifying ...

Source: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=52626

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