Please note: The NCMA's galleries will be closed on Wednesday, November 11, for Veterans Day. We will reopen at 10 am on Thursday. As always, the Museum Park will be open from dawn until dusk. ---- Pictured: The skirmish between redcoats and minutemen at Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, signaled the beginning of the Revolutionary War. More than 70 years later, rather than portraying this episode as a heroic battle scene, William Tylee Ranney captured the spreading news of war. ---- Credit: William Tylee Ranney, First News of the Battle of Lexington, 1847, Oil on canvas, 44 1/6 x 63 5/16 in., Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina