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Washing the White Blood from Daniel Boone

1939

Jared French

(American, 1905–1988)
Culture
America
Medium
tempera on masonite
Measurements
71.1 x 77.5 cm (28 x 30 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Kelly Simpson in memory of his wife Marilyn M. Simpson and her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller Jr. 2018.78
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

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

Description

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

1939

Jared French

(American, 1905–1988)
America

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