His granite-like appearance cleverly references Delaware’s nicknames as both “The Diamond State” and “The First State,” creating a visual connection to local heritage that elevates him beyond mere ...

While WWII and the Vietnam War have been featured in many films, there are also excellent Revolutionary War movies like The ...

Beginning July 4, the portrait will be on display in the Declaration of Independence rotunda at the American Revolution ...

Morven, 55 Stockton Street, will hold its annual Independence Day festivities on Friday, July 4, from 12 to 3 p.m. For this ...

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...

There’s a place in Pennsylvania where the Delaware River whispers secrets of the past, where artists find their muse around ...

Here's your guide to events, including fairs, parades, fireworks and other celebrations around Bucks County for July 4.

“Washington Crossing the Delaware” is no longer on display at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona. The painting, which is one of two versions that still exist created by Emanuel Leutze ...

People Sandra Jackson-Dumont on Robert Colescott’s ‘George Washington Crossing the Delaware’ "It’s exhilarating to think art can labor on behalf of world issues and personal struggles." ...

Drought conditions have lowered water levels on the Delaware, threatening the annual reenactment of Washington's famous move to raid Trenton in 1776.

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 ...