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Item Number: 112855
Title: [LEUTZE] Washington Crossing the Delaware: Restoring an American Masterpiece
Author: Barratt, Carrie Rebora (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300176421
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 27cm., pbk., 48pp. illus. Summary: Emanuel Leutze's life-size Washington Crossing the Delaware commemorates the critical moment in the American Revolution when George Washington led a surprise attack against troops supporting the British forces in Trenton, New Jersey. When Leutze created the painting in 1850, ten years after he had returned from America to his native Germany, he was hoping to rally support for the revolutionary movements then sweeping Europe. Leutze sent the work to New York in 1851, and within four months more than fifty thousand people had paid to see it. Today, this painting is an icon of American visual culture and is one of the most beloved objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2007, Leutze's masterpiece became the focus of the most ambitious conservation and reframing project in the museum's history. This fascinating book is a behind-the-scenes account of the painting's acquisition and display at the museum, as well as of the project to restore and reframe it. The work's unveiling coincides with the opening of the new American Wing paintings galleries in January 2012.
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