Welcome to "The Prayer at Valley Forge", a classic American masterpiece. The scene captured in this historic painting exemplifies patriotism and devotion to God, two characteristics that helped to make George Washington one of America's most revered leaders. "The Prayer at Valley Forge" was painted in 1976 by Arnold Friberg in order to honor our country's bicentennial year.

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Those prayers at Valley Forge, romantically preserved in art, have almost been given the status of legend.  Yet the General really did pray during that dark winter.  According to the record, two eyewitnesses (General Henry Knox and the man with whom Washington was quartered at Valley Forge, Isaac Potts) tell of the General retiring to a quiet grove where he could be alone to seek the help of God.¹³  But this man of great faith was not motivated to pray at Valley Forge simply because of the horrors of that winter.  Washington prayed at Valley Forge in large part because it was his habit to pray.  As his grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, later wrote, "Throughout the war, as it was understood in his military family, he gave a part of every day to private prayer and devotion."¹⁴  George Washington prayed from the time of his youth, and he apparently continued that practice throughout his life.¹⁵  His prayers at Valley Forge, then, were but one strand in a lifetime of devotion.

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