Second View · Original artwork
Through the Ice
From the forward tip of the lead boat, Washington faces the viewer while rowers, a windblown flag, following boats, and jagged river ice recede behind him.
Washington stands at the center of the lead boat, framed by a break in the storm clouds and the river stretching behind him. Rowers lean into their oars on either side while a windblown flag, crowded boats, upright rifles, and broken sheets of ice carry the crossing into the distance. The low, head-on viewpoint places the viewer just beyond the bow and turns the familiar side view of the crossing into a direct encounter with its leader and crew.
Source conversation
A changed point of view.
Through the Ice is an original Second View composition developed in dialogue with Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Leutze shows the crossing from the side; this work moves to the forward tip of the lead boat and looks back toward Washington, the rowers, and the boats following behind.
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