From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom (evalise@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 12:03:57 MDT
Here's the satirical painting:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/wood/daughters.html
--- rhinoceros <rhinoceros@freemail.gr> wrote:
>
>
> This one came with the Skeptic newsleter:
>
> <quote>
> The artist took his revenge in a painting called
> "Daughters of Revolution." It was done for the
> Washington Bicentennial, a flood of filiopietism.
> Much of it came from the Daughters of the American
> Revolution who claimed to be the true keepers of the
> Revolutionary memory. Grant Wood did not agree. He
> called them "Tory Gals," and condemned them as "the
> people who are trying to set up an aristocracy of
> birth in the Republic."
>
> His painting showed three Daughters of the American
> Revolution, with smug expressions and unseeing eyes.
> One holds an imported blue willow teacup in an
> affected way. Behind them Grant Wood painted a
> faded image of Leutze's "Washington Crossing the
> Delaware" as a symbol of the true Revolutionary
> spirit. The artist was not debunking George
> Washington. We used Leutze's image to debunk the
> Daughters of the American Revolution.
>
> The painting was widely exhibited and much discussed
> in the press. The San Francisco chapter of the
> Daughters of the American Revolution reviled it as
> "scandalous" and "destructive of American
> traditions." Grant Wood claimed that the Baltimore
> chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
> tried to have him deported as a "Red." But other
> Daughters loved the satire, and the painting gave
> many Americans a much needed laugh during the Great
> Depression.
>
> End of Excerpt
> <end quote>
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