Upcoming Release: Glorious Lessons John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution
May 31 2024
Picture: Yale University Press
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Yale University Press will be releasing a new book in July focusing on the paintings of John Trumbull, the artist who created many famous pictures during the American Wars of Independence. The publication has been written by Richard Brookhiser.
According to the publisher's website:
John Trumbull (1756–1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand—he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was “to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man.” Although Trumbull’s contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian.
The book will be released on 23rd July 2024.
