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Historical Imaginary

December 17, 2022 – November 11, 2023

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  • A museum gallery installation with gray and forest green walls. In the foreground of the installation image is a work of art that looks like a portrait of President Washington in a book that has been burnt.

    Historical Imaginary installed at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, in Kaish Gallery. Photo by Alison Palizzolo.

  • An unfinished painting of George Washington crossing the Deleware River.

    Emanuel Leutze, Incomplete Study for Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1850, oil on canvas. Private collection.

About

Historical Imaginary pairs an unfinished study for Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware with historical and contemporary artworks from the Hood Museum’s collection to explore how artists—literally—constructed ideas about US history. This exhibition questions how artworks shaped, and continue to shape, our perception of the past, in the hopes that we can build upon our shared, complex, and sometimes violent history to imagine and create a more equitable future.

This exhibition is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously supported by William B. Jaffe Memorial Fund.

Exhibition Curator

Michael Hartman

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Exhibition subject: United States & Canada