Emanuel Leutze’s enormous 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” depicts the general’s journey on Dec. 25, 1776, as he launched a surprise attack on hundreds of Hessian troops ...

Leutze had seen firsthand the power of ... After its German tour, the first version of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” ended up in the Bremen art museum. In an odd twist of fate, it was ...

German-born artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, who was born 40 years after the battle, painted “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in Düsseldorf. Leutze grew up in America but returned to Germany ...

Technically, never. But then "Washington Crossing the Delaware," the iconic Emanuel Leutze painting on which "LaQuisha Washington" is riffing, has its own factual issues. Need a break? Play the ...

German-American painter Emanuel Leutze immortalized the attack in 1851. "Washington Crossing the Delaware" hangs today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The triumphal artwork has ...

The Continental Army’s advance across the river into New Jersey, rendered in the famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” by German artist Emanuel Leutze, was a turning point in the ...

TITUSVILLE, NJ — The National Park Service has awarded the Washington Crossing Park Association of New Jersey a $75,000 Semiquincentennial Grant to update the boundary of the National Historic ...

There will be the usual crowd gathered on the Delaware River shore ... in the painting by Emmanuel Leutze in 1851. The flotilla will launch from Washington Crossing Historic Park in Upper ...