all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2048 (September 26, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
BE THIS GUY about 6 years ago
“150 years from now, Americans will proudly tear down a traitorous statue of you.”
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 6 years ago
“Tell me again which of us is on the wrong side of history?”
Strob Premium Member about 6 years ago
Yes, I’ve signed the house deed over to the dogs. Sit! Stay!
pcolli about 6 years ago
“Will you be taking the slaves with you?”
J Short about 6 years ago
Slave: Break a leg; no really.
aerotica69 about 6 years ago
Don’t worry son, the army will make a man out of you. You’ll even learn how to grow a pointy beard.
Carolyn Saunders about 6 years ago
Seated woman: “Dear god, where did the boy buy those trousers”
prrdh about 6 years ago
I wonder what the guy outside has done to the saddle on the horse.
garcoa about 6 years ago
Really good one, Melcher.
wawoodman about 6 years ago
And if you meet Col. Angus, tell him your Mother says hello!
mabrndt Premium Member about 6 years ago
Leaving Home:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leaving_Home_by_William_Gilbert_Gaul.jpg
(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gaul_gilbert.html
https://www.michaelhallantiques.com/blog/2018/8/7/gilbert-gaul-americantennessee-1855-1919
http://www.artnet.com/artists/gilbert-gaul/biography
http://web.archive.org/web/20170807235940/https://www.nationalacademy.org/collections/artists/detail/396/
http://www.williamsamericanart.com/Artist_Biographies/WILLIAM_GILBERT_GAUL,_N__A__(American,_1855_-_1919)/
all have info about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2048 (September 26, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.
Linguist about 6 years ago
" I think y’all will be a great hairstylist for the Confederacy, Llewellyn. But if it don’t pan out, son, then find you a rich Yankee. "
Call me Ishmael about 6 years ago
Get captured quick – and protect your million dollar hands!
anomaly about 6 years ago
“No, son. We’re sellin’ the horse. You’re gonna hafta ride the dog bareback.”
Funny_Ha_Ha about 6 years ago
If we loose this war, you’ll have to pick the cotton.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
Even now they believe they were right. Only now no more black slaves, they want white ones while blacks get their own nation-state.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
To the Brits we are all Yankees and still are.
rugeirn about 6 years ago
The painting now lives at the Birmingham Museum of Art, which has a page about it at https://artsbma.org/collection/leaving-home/ on their website.