The Beloved Leader’s Treaty with the Indians​

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The 8th painting in the Beloved Leader Series is adapted from Benjamin West’s “Penn’s Treaty with the Indians”, completed in 1772. West depicted William Penn leading a delegation of Quakers and English merchants to negotiate the Treaty of Shackamaxon with a chief of the Lenape Turtle Clan. The scene is set under a towering elm near the village of Shackamaxon (present day Philadelphia). Jumping centuries and continents, our rendition shows the Beloved Leader (Mark Z) at the head of a group of Meta board members and executives. They are completing a treaty with various political leaders and tech CEOs of present-day India, under a massive banyan tree in a park near Bengalaru.​

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