31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘The Painter's Fire' Review: Pictures From a Revolution
History, we're told, is written by the victors. It is also shaped by the evidence that survives. For that reason, the loss of an artist's works may consign his story, or hers, to the margins.
But from those margins, it can, with diligence and imagination, be reclaimed. That is the most invigorating takeaway from Zara Anishanslin's 'The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution.'