Painting and Sculpture

American Progress

American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked during the 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints. It is now held by the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California.

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See also

• ▸Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye
• ▸David Bacon (photojournalist)
• ▸East Wind Over Weehawken

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