Not exact matches
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7, 2017 — A restored mid-19th-century copy of a
painting depicting George Washington and French general Rochambeau during the last major battle of America's
Revolutionary War has been installed at the Museum of the American Revolution.
This exhibition features Mort Künstler's most recent
paintings that depict the story of our country's birth from settlement through the
Revolutionary War and the inauguration of George Washington.
American Art Students learn to look at visual imagery through an exploration of American
paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts representing the colonial period, the
Revolutionary and the Civil
Wars, westward expansion, the early twentieth century, and the contemporary moment.
Among the works included in the exhibition are Untitled (Chinese)(2011), from a group of works inspired by an antique Chinese mirror; Untitled (Goya)(2007), a
painting on a found awning, burnt by the sun, from a butcher shop in The Atlas Mountains of Morocco; and Untitled (Goodbye Mike Kelley)(2012), made shortly after the death of artist Mike Kelley, which incorporates a historical
painting, on printed Dufour wallpaper, of the
Revolutionary War.
The work incorporates a historical
painting of the
Revolutionary War on printed Dufour wallpaper.
«JACOB LAWRENCE: Struggle... From The History of the American People» @ Phillips Collection Washington, D.C. Ten years after Jacob Lawrence completed his celebrated Migration series, he
painted 60 canvases documenting significant moments from the
Revolutionary War to the great westward expansion of 1817.
The work of art was originally shown at the Royal Academy in 1835 and based on material Turner collected when he visited the spot in 1833, the
painting depicts the historic fortress overlooking the Rhine near Koblenz, Germany, dense with historical references to the French
Revolutionary Wars which devastated Europe and reshaped the political and cultural landscape.