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More accurate view of Washington crossing debuts

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 Washington using what he knew at the time.” But Kunstler said his new piece is aimed at righting the historical mistakes.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/2011/12/more-accurate-view-washington-crossing-debuts/2032811#ixzz1iQwlzbnz

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