". . . The boy who has found a red ear kisses the girl who brings the cider." ("Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office") Notice Dows's inclusion of a black slave laborer in lower right corner. Slavery officially persisted in New York State until 1799....
From "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office:" "Early funeral in the Van Waaganan-Aartsen burying ground, with one of the first log houses and its stockade, to keep wild animals from eating the garden, as background."
Sketch for Rhinebeck Post Office mural panel depicting a 1780's "cornshucking bee."
Sketches for the Rhinebeck post office murals were first executed by Dowsand trasferred to linen canvas which was then colored with thin turpentine glazes and...
". . . The boy who has found a red ear kisses the girl who brings the cider." ("Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office") Notice Dows's inclusion of a black slave laborer in lower right corner. Slavery officially persisted in New York State until 1799....
Two pictures of men in aprons. The men are relaxing in chairs in the first picture. In the second picture, several men are setting up a table for eating and several more are visible at a cooking fire in the background.
