Focus on Election Day in Philadelphia and explore the abstract.
Election Day in Philadelphia is an oil-on-canvas genre painting by American artist John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821). It was painted in Philadelphia in 1815. Purchased with funds provided by Henry Francis du Pont, the work is held in the permanent collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. The painting depicts grassroots democratic participation in the early Republic, with a raucous crowd gathered outside Independence Hall to celebrate and engage in electoral politics.
Philadelphia genre painting Henry Francis du Pont John Lewis Krimmel early Republic Independence Hall Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library