Storming the Capitol

Catalogue note

A crowd of pale figures surges up a flight of steps beneath an American flag, arms raised, while Mount Rushmore looms through storm clouds and a beam of light falls on a distant plain. A black-and-white checkered floor tilts beneath the scene, and a red cap lies discarded in the foreground. The painting is openly allegorical, a jostling, apocalyptic vision of insurrection and national myth.