Keeping the Revolution Alive: the John Ward Dunsmore Collection December 31, 2012

John Ward Dunsmore was best known for his realistic and accurate genre paintings of the events surrounding the American Revolution and Early Republic. He not only painted the Revolution, but kept the spirit of that struggle alive for the nation in the early 20th Century. His attention to research and detail created vivid paintings that became a part of the nation's historical imagery. Dunsmore's works have been reproduced on items ranging from school children's textbooks to the Library of Congress's website, to a special coin produced by the U.S. Mint. This exhibition of the newly restored John Ward Dunsmore collection in the museum's new Dunsmore Gallery returns these images to their rightful place in the iconography of American culture.