34. Mutineers return – oil on canvas (18" by 14")

As today's arrival of the star at a movie premiere would draw crowds so in 1792 did the return of the mutineers. But then they were booed – for their crime was as much against the people as it was against the Navy. Whereas they robbed the navy of but a single ship . . . they robbed the people of a dream, a dream of an attainable, contaminated paradise.’

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