The artist? A German. And the ode to it? Auf Deutsch. That second version that was sent abroad? It was sent to the United States. In fact, when Emanuel Leutze started his masterpiece, his ...

In 1864 a Metropolitan Fair, organized by the United States Sanitary Commission, was held in New York City in support of the Union Army. Three great paintings now in the collection of the ...

The most famous image of the American Revolution hangs not in the Capitol but in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Emanuel Leutze’s enormous 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware ...

Titled “Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth,” the painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, a legendary German artist, dates to 1857. It recreates Washington’s involvement in the historic ...

In his new masterpiece, "Crossing the Swamp," Utah-based artist Jon McNaughton pays homage to Emanuel Leutze's iconic 1851 painting, "Washington Crossing the Delaware." In that classic work ...

Not the 21-foot canvas that takes up an entire wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but the other one — the roughly 3½-by-5½-foot version painted at about the same time by Emanuel Leutze ...