Happy Thanksgiving,folks!
William Sidney Mount (American) 1807-1868,The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose) 1837,oil on wood
America's most famous painter of narrative scenes,Mount chose as his subjects various aspects in the the flat Long Island landscape around Stony Brook,NY.where he lived.He managed to transcend the manifest content of his pictures to the address the social political realities of the time.The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose),showing an impromptu lottery,was Mount's good-humored allusions to the food shortages brought on by the the financial panic of 1837.
Happy Thanksgiving,folks!
William Sidney Mount (American) 1807-1868,The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose) 1837,oil on wood
America's most famous painter of narrative scenes,Mount chose as his subjects various aspects in the the flat Long Island landscape around Stony Brook,NY.where he lived.He managed to transcend the manifest content of his pictures to the address the social political realities of the time.The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose),showing an impromptu lottery,was Mount's good-humored allusions to the food shortages brought on by the the financial panic of 1837.