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Daughters of Revolution, 1932 Oil on masonite; 101.6 x 50.8 cm. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH. » view » |
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Parson Weems’ Fable, 1939 Oil on canvas. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX. Wood’s image of Washington is based on the… » view » |
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931 Oil on Masonite. 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. » view » |
No man ever loved Massachusetts with greater intensity than did [Massachusetts Royal Governor] Thomas Hutchinson. He had written her history, fought for her boundaries, re-established her currency, seen to it that her courts and judicial system were kept to a high standard. He had honestly believed in the centralization of power, and that the centre should be in London. The side which won did not, and yet their grandchildren (two of Paul Revere’s among them) were to be dying within a century for the centralization of power in the Federal Government. Hutchinson lost everything by backing the wrong system at the wrong time.... Yet if the other side had won, Thomas Hutchinson would undoubtedly be regarded as one of our great patriots.