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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 1468 • Augsburg • Germany
Died March 30, 1540 (aged 72) • Salzburg • Austria
Maximilian, count von Trauttmansdorff
Austrian statesman and diplomat
Maximilian I
Maximilian I
Holy Roman emperor
Nicholas II
Nicholas II
pope
Pelagius I
Pelagius I
pope
Görtz, portrait by an unknown artist; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Georg Heinrich, baron von Görtz
German statesman
Matthäus Schiner
Swiss diplomat
Fesch, detail of a lithograph by the de Becquet brothers after a drawing by Fischer
Joseph Fesch
French cardinal
Jean du Bellay, engraving by an unknown French artist, 16th century
Jean du Bellay
French cardinal and diplomat
Straus, Oscar Solomon
Oscar Solomon Straus
United States statesman
Giovanni Battista Caprara
Italian diplomat
Pierre Guérin de Tencin
French statesman
Dalberg, Karl Theodor von
Karl Theodor von Dalberg
German archbishop and statesman
Saint Bruno the Great
archbishop of Cologne
Friedrich Karl, Graf von Schönborn
vice chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire
Berthold von Henneberg, detail from his tomb monument attributed to Hans Backoffen; in Mainz Cathedral, Ger.
Berthold Von Henneberg
German archbishop
Hatto I
archbishop of Mainz
Rainald of Dassel; silver bust, in the Cologne Cathedral
Rainald Of Dassel
German statesman
Anno, Saint
Saint Anno
archbishop of Cologne
Gregory V
pope
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
American diplomat, humanitarian and first lady