What was the name of the German artist who painted ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ in 1851?
Washington Crossing the Delaware Washington Crossing the Delaware Washington Crossing the Delaware is an 1851 oil-on-canvas painting by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze. It commemorates General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River with the Continental Army on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. That action was the first move in a surprise attack against the German Hessian allied mercenary forces at Trenton, New Jersey, in the Battle of Trenton on the morning of December 26. The original was part of the collection at the Kunsthalle in Bremen, Germany, and was destroyed in a bombing raid
Washington Crossing the Delaware In 1953, the American pop artist Larry Rivers painted "Washington Crossing the Delaware", which is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting has also inspired copies by Roy Lichtenstein (an abstract expressionist variant painted c. 1951) and Robert Colescott (a parody titled "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware" painted in 1975). * Grant Wood makes direct use of Leutze's painting in his own "Daughters of Revolution". The painting is a direct jab at the D.A.R., scrutinizing what Wood interpreted as their unfounded elitism. "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is a 1936 sonnet by