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Description of Pictures: Historian David Hackett Fischer on Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware

The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures event features an eminent writer, thinker, historian, or artist who speaks about a single, powerful image and explores its meaning. The series director is historian and essayist Adam Goodheart, who is director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.

The following is from http://washingtoncollegenews.blogspot.com/2010/04/american-pictures-series-at-smithsonian_28.html

American Pictures Series at Smithsonian Concludes with Historian David Hackett Fischer

Chestertown — On Saturday, May 1, in Washington, D.C., cultural historian David Hackett Fischer will close the 2010 "American Pictures" series with a conversation inspired by Emanuel Leutze's iconic painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (1851). The talk will take place in the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium inside the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

A joint program of Washington College, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the "American Pictures" series offers a highly original approach to the visual arts, pairing great works of art with leading figures of American culture. This spring's all-star line-up features a trio of Pulitzer Prize winners: Fischer, Civil War historian James McPherson (who opened the series on April 10), and cartoonist/author Jules Feiffer (who appeared on April 17). Each speaker chooses a single powerful image and investigates its meanings, revealing how artworks reflect American identity and inspire creativity in many different fields. The series director is historian and essayist Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the College's C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American ...More...

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FISCH1_100501_020.JPG: Alan Fern, former head of the National Portrait Gallery, with Adam Goodheart.
2. FISCH1_100501_027.JPG: Martin E. Sullivan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery
3. FISCH1_100501_111.JPG: Adam Goodheart
4. FISCH1_100501_364.JPG: David Hackett Fischer @ Donald Reynolds Center
5. FISCH1_100501_692.JPG: The speaker with David Stewart
6. FISCH1_100501_740.JPG: David Stewart is on the right
7. FISCH2_100501_054.JPG: The flag depicted is the original flag of the United States (the "Stars and Stripes"), the design of which did not exist at the time of Washington's crossing. The flag's design was specified in the June 14, 1777 Flag Resolution of the Second Continental Congress, and flew for the first time on September 3, 1777 -- well after Washington's crossing in 1776. The historically accurate flag would have been the Grand Union Flag, officially hoisted by Washington himself on January 2, 1776 at Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the standard of the Continental Army and the first national flag.
8. FISCH2_100501_061.JPG: An odd mix of hats and uniforms, symbolizing the mix that made up the colonial forces. Behind him is an African-American.
9. FISCH2_100501_067.JPG: Washington's horse is the white one in the background
10. FISCH2_100501_074.JPG: General Edward Hand (commanding general at siege of Yorktown) is shown seated and holding his hat within the vessel.
11. FISCH2_100501_078.JPG: Washington's sword is in the wrong way. The point needs to be facing backward in order to pull it out of the scabbard.
12. FISCH2_100501_092.JPG: James Monroe is holding the flag
13. FISCH2_100501_140.JPG: Various take-offs of the painting
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