RT Journal
A1 Harris JC
T1 WAshington crossing the delaware
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2012
FD February 1
VO 69
IS 2
SP 116
OP 117
DO 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.1854
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.1854
AB 
In 1851-1852, more than 50 000 people visited the New York exhibit of Emanuel Leutze's great commissioned painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware. More still viewed it when it moved on to Washington, DC, where it was placed in the rotunda of the nation's capitol. It soon was recognized as the epitome of patriotic art in the United States. Northerners viewed it as a symbol of freedom and union while southerners considered it a symbol of liberty and independence. Later during the War Between the States, the Union cause sought to use it to raise money, especially for the antislavery movement because there is an African American man in the boat with George Washington. His presence was no accident; the artist was an abolitionist.2