Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone

1939
(American, 1905–1988)
71.1 x 77.5 cm (28 x 30 1/2 in.)
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location: not on view

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In 1940, a closeted gay art critic punningly described this painting as a "queer picture."

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Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone relates an episode in the life of the frontiersman: his adoption ritual performed upon his temporary capture by the Shawnee people. One of the first American artists whose same-sex desires were recognized by his contemporaries, French homoeroticized the narrative by substituting men for the women who were thought to have performed the rite.
Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone

Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone

1939

Jared French

(American, 1905–1988)
America

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