Jonas Lie, The Conquerors (Culebra Cut, Panama Canal)

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Lie portrays man’s dominance over nature in his painting of the construction of the Panama Canal.

Jonas Lie, The Conquerors (Culebra Cut, Panama Canal), 1913, oil on canvas, 152.4 x 127 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Speakers: Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, Historian, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Dr. Steven Zucker

This work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Taína Caragol and Kate Clarke Lemay, editors, 1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific, exhibition catalogue (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, 2023).

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Cite this page as: Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Jonas Lie, The Conquerors (Culebra Cut, Panama Canal)," in Smarthistory, February 28, 2024, accessed January 22, 2025, https://smarthistory.org/jonas-lie-the-conquerors-culebra-cut-panama-canal/.