Andrew Polk
God's Grace

(2010) Acrylic on canvas, 52"H x 52"W

America, the Beautiful (1st stanza)

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!



Another song by Bob Dylan, With God on our Side (1963), well represents the attitudes of the 2000's as it describes how Americans believe God backs their causes and subsequent atrocities in unjust wars.