A 1975 parody of this work showing a cigar-smoking man in a top hat strumming a banjo, Aunt Jemima baring her behind, and Uncle Ben manning an oar was done by Robert Colescott, with the original subject being replaced by a similarly named contemporary historical figure.
A 1975 parody of this work showing a cigar-smoking man in a top hat strumming a banjo, Aunt Jemima baring her behind, and Uncle Ben manning an oar was done by Robert Colescott, with the original subject being replaced by a similarly named contemporary historical figure. The original version of it was destroyed by Allied bombing in Bremen, though another 1850 copy hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In it, chunks of ice fill the surrounding waters, and the impending sunrise casts a radiant aura to the central vessel, with the titular subject clad in military attire, standing on one knee towards the front as two men behind him cling to a rolled up American flag, both looking towards the approaching shore. FTP, identify this Emanuel Leutze painting of the future first president making his way towards Trenton.
A 1975 parody of this work showing a cigar-smoking man in a top hat strumming a banjo, Aunt Jemima baring her behind, and Uncle Ben manning an oar was done by Robert Colescott, with the original subject being replaced by a similarly named contemporary historical figure.
{Washington Crossing the Delaware} (Colescott’s painting was George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware)