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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

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Born	1730 • London • England
Died	November 18, 1788 (aged 58) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania

Joseph Severn

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William Hogarth

English artist

Thomas Gainsborough

English painter

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English artist

Joshua Reynolds

British painter

Sir Thomas Lawrence

British artist

Nicholas Hilliard

English painter

John Everett Millais

British painter

George Romney

British painter

Thomas Rowlandson

English painter and caricaturist

Northcote, James: portrait of Samuel Northcote

James Northcote

English painter

Sir Peter Lely

Dutch painter

Graham Sutherland

British artist

Sir James Thornhill

English painter

George Frederick Watts

British painter and sculptor

Thomas Sully

American artist

John Hoppner

British painter

John Opie

British painter

Joseph Blackburn

American painter

William Dobson

English painter

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Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.

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