xml/lby.00152.xml Icons of Liberty: American Progress (Manifest Destiny)

John Gast, American Progress (Manifest Destiny) (1872)

John Gast, American Progress (Manifest Destiny) (1872). Oil on canvas. The Congoleum Collection, Portsmouth, NH. Gast's painting shows an ethereal Liberty figure leading the American settlers across the continent as the Native Americans and the buffalo flee ahead of the advance.

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