: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery. There are several ways to witness the signing of the Declaration of Independence without the ...

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution; by Richard Brookhiser; Yale University Press; 276 pp., $30.00 In Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American ...

It was his sisters’ needlework that first attracted John Trumbull to art. His father found the attraction inappropriate on two counts: first, young John had lost the use of one eye in a childhood ...

The most famous image of America’s founding, John Trumbull’s painting “Declaration of Independence,” does not depict the events of July 4, 1776. Rather, it portrays a scene that took place on June 28, ...

John Trumbull, a native of Lebanon, Conn., served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, but it was his deeds later in life that immortalized him as an iconic participant in that ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Richard Brookhiser talked about the childhood of Revolutionary War era painter John Trumbull. The American Revolution Institute of the Society ...

Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution, by Richard Brookhiser (Yale, 276 pp., $30) Trumbull marks a departure from the author’s previous biographical subjects, all of whom ...

When Daniel Wadsworth founded his eponymous museum in his home city of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1842, the collection comprised 79 paintings and a handful of sculptures ...

A closer look at John Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" as seen on our littlest-used piece of U.S. currency — the $2 bill. Appraiser Christopher Lane appraised this beaten-up old 1820 John ...

Both sides of Trumbull’s family were descended from early Puritan settlers in Connecticut. The young Trumbull entered the 1771 junior class at Harvard College at age 15 and graduated in 1773. A ...