There’s a flag?

Either way, beautiful painting.

The flag is the image. You can’t love this painting despite the flag without totally missing the point. Given the year it was made, this has to be a painting about America’s Civil War. In this seemingly mundane landscape painting, I see so much blood and strife on the horizon for the country, the dawn of a bloody fight. Fitting, as it would have been painted early in the war.

Took me forever to see the flag. Beautiful picture despite it.