2023-08 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/26/2023
Dixie Washington Leach (1861-1938), was a graduate of Cooper Union Women's Art School in New York and became a prolific artist and publisher in North Carolina. Prints of Leach's work was advertised continuously in the Confederate Veteran including a notice from the Robert E. Lee Calendar company of Raleigh, NC which touted "Perfect reproduction from water-color painting by Miss Dixie W. Leach, issued both as picture or calendar Actual Water-Color Painted Flag by Leach, "And 'twill live in song and story, Though its folds are in the dust." Watercolor. 9 3/8 x 14 5/16 in., matted. A watercolor painting featuring the "conquered banners:" the first flag of the Confederate States ("Stars and Bars"), the "Battle Flag" adopted after the First Battle of Bull Run, the "National Flag" used by the Confederate States from 1 May 1863, and the "national Flag" used by the Confederacy from 4 March 1865. With a quote from the poem "The Conquered Banner" by Confederate Army chaplain Abram J. Ryan. Written after Lee's surrender at Appomattox and first published in the pro-Confederate Catholic newspaper the New York Freeman. It became enormously popular in the post-war South, especially in the period from 1890-1920 when the "Lost Cause" ideology gained momentum. ... plus, "Flags of the Confederacy", 8 3/4 x 12 3/4, by Dixie W. Leach, 1910. A hand-colored lithograph with a near-identical design of the same four flags and verse as the first piece.
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