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The Famous Picnic at Val Kill

Ann Murfee Allen

Artwork Details

The Famous Picnic at Val Kill
1975
Ann Murfee Allen
oil on canvas
49 x 36 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (124.46 x 93.35 x 4.45 cm)
2002/1.178

Description

Subject Matter:

The Famous Picnic at Val Kil documents the racially integrated picnic at which President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, entertained the King and Queen of England at their estate in Hyde Park, New York on a Sunday afternoon on June 11, 1939. 

Physical Description:

Painting depicting three sailboats in the foreground, and figures sitting around tables and standing on a lawn in the middle ground, with two houses in the background.

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