Henry’s Pride, 1962

This was painted in 1962! A very different style from most of Deane’s painting from the sixties. I think he spent more time on this one. He entered it in the Tulsa, OK Philbrook Art Center’s twenty-second annual exhibition April 3 through April 26, 1962. It was listed as “Oil $100”. It did not sell and I believe it is now lost.

Henry Holcomb Bennett remains best known as the author of the popular patriotic poem, “Hats Off – The Flag Goes By.” This poem was first published in “An American Anthology” in 1900, in “The Young and Field Reader, Book Five” in 1915, and in Woman’s World, July 1919. It was soon sung widely—especially on the 4th of July.

The Flag is Passing By

Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A dash of color beneath the sky:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!