Exploring Horizon Line: Art and the American Revolution

In this talk, Elizabeth Chew will consider how art shaped Americans’ perceptions of the American Revolution. Works of art created during and after the war enabled Americans (first as colonists, then as citizens of a new country) to picture the stories and heroes of the fight for independence. Furthermore, works by artists Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, John Trumbull, and others provided Americans with a shared origin story for their new nation.

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