BGuthrie Photos: USCHS -- Lunch Talk: John Laurence Busch ("Steam Diplomacy: Sending a Subtle Message in Leutze's Westward Ho!")

USCHS -- Lunch Talk: John Laurence Busch ("Steam Diplomacy: Sending a Subtle Message in Leutze's Westward Ho!"):

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Description of Pictures: John Laurence Busch, "Steam Diplomacy: Sending a Subtle Message in Leutze's Westward Ho!"
Busch will illustrate, through a combination of contextual and circumstantial evidence, why the artist Emanuel Leutze (of Washington Crossing the Delaware fame) painted a steamship in the Capitol's Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (or, in shorthand, Westward Ho!) when no such vessel had been shown in either of Leutze's prior two studies. Busch will conclude by suggesting that the final work, located at the southwestern steps to the House Gallery, may be seen as an excellent artistic example of "steam diplomacy.”

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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. BUSCH_181114_045.JPG: William C. diGiacomantonio -- Chief Historian, U.S. Capitol Historical Society
2. BUSCH_181114_067.JPG: Steve Livengood
3. BUSCH_181114_115.JPG: John Laurence Busch
4. BUSCH_181114_206.JPG: John Laurence Busch
5. BUSCH_181114_353.JPG: Michelle Krowl
6. BUSCH_181114_592.JPG: Ken Bowling
7. BUSCH_181114_706.JPG: John Laurence Busch, Michelle Krowl
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