You Americans are no better than so many wild beasts

Image Not Available for You Americans are no better than so many wild beasts
You Americans are no better than so many wild beasts
Image Not Available for You Americans are no better than so many wild beasts

You Americans are no better than so many wild beasts

Date1906
Illustration Citation"A Full Day at Palomitas," by Thomas A. Janvier, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, January 1907
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/4 x 20 1/8 in. (76.8 x 51.1 cm)
frame: 34 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 2 in. (87.6 × 62.2 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1989
Object number1989-117
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Label TextArthurs captures a moment of conflict, emerging from a dimly lighted railroad car, when a foppish Englishman expresses his frustration at the chaos and crudeness he finds on a New Mexico train ride. The narrator's response distills Americans self-image of the time, noting that we live in a country "too young, too vigorous, to be cramped and trammeled by obsolete conventions and narrow old world rules."
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