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In the summer of 1937, shortly after his family donated the painting “Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth” to the Monmouth County Historical Association, Walter B. Howe wrote a series of ...

One of the most famous paintings of the American Revolution and likely the most famous image of George Washington is going up for sale. "Washington Crossing the Delaware," which hung in the White ...

Emanuel Leutze was a German-born American painter best known for his iconic work Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Leutze’s works were executed in the highly finished manner of European ...

Groseclose, Barbara S., "Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: freedom is the only king," Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian ...

It was the winter of 1776. With the War of Independence failing, Gen. George Washington and his army had low morale and few new recruits. Washington’s campaign in New York had not gone well. On Dec. 2 ...

Last fall, word that Monmouth County Historical Association might sell a priceless painting of the Battle of Monmouth set the local-historian community ablaze with objections. On Monday the MCHA gave ...