Peter Saul, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, acrylic/canvas, 64 x 82 inches, 2015.
Peter Saul at Mary Boone Gallery
Emmanuel Leutze’s famous depiction of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on the night of Dec 25th, 1776 takes artistic liberties, but not as many as Peter Saul’s hilarious comic version. Hopping across potato-like icebergs, Washington as a flower-hatted dandy uses his massive fists to punch red-faced, bug-eyed Hessian mercenaries in a dramatic historical rewrite. (At Chelsea’s Mary Boone Gallery through Dec 18th).