For the newspaper, see American Progress (newspaper). For the 1937 mural, see Josep Maria Sert.
American Progress
Artist
John Gast
Year
1872 (1872)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Subject
Manifest destiny, Settler colonialism
Dimensions
11 1/2 in × 15 3/4 in. (29.2 cm × 40 cm)
Location
Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California
Owner
Autry Museum of the American West
Accession
92.126.1
Website
Exhibit website
American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s 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.[1]
American West in Los Angeles, California. AmericanProgress, a painting of profound historical significance, has become a seminal example of American...
for AmericanProgress has a youth-engagement organization, Generation Progress, and a sister advocacy organization, the Center for AmericanProgress Action...
Progress is movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state. It is central to the philosophy of progressivism, which interprets progress...
Progress for America (PFA) (a 501(c)(4)) and its affiliate Progress for America Voter Fund (PFA-VF) (a 527 committee) are national tax-exempt organizations...
and the 'American Dream'". University World News. Retrieved November 14, 2022. "Bargaining for the American Dream". Center for AmericanProgress. September...
suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services in North America. Progress Rail markets products and services worldwide and maintains 110 facilities...
Census". Center for AmericanProgress. Prewitt, Kenneth. What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University...
ThinkProgress was an American progressive news website that was active from 2005 to 2019. It was a project of the Center for AmericanProgress Action...
Wayback Machine "Wealth Inequality Among Asian Americans Greater Than Among Whites – Center for AmericanProgress". americanprogress.org. December 20, 2016...
Frontier Thesis "The White Man's Burden" (1899) Young America movement "John Gast, AmericanProgress, 1872". Picturing U.S. History. City University of New...
(April 14, 2010). "The Progressive Intellectual Tradition in America". Center for AmericanProgress. Archived from the original on December 19, 2015. Matthew...
University. She was involved with PolicyLink, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for AmericanProgress. Maya Lakshmi Harris was born in Champaign-Urbana...
Wagner has worked as the cultural correspondent for the Center for AmericanProgress. From 2003 to 2007, she was editor-in-chief of The Fader magazine...
Americans for Medical Progress (AMP) is a nonprofit advocacy group that supports the use of animal testing in biomedical research. Although in favor of...
believed Americanprogress would facilitate the return of Jesus Christ and the Christian Millennium. Some 19th century historians linked American liberty...
Rob; Teixeira, Ruy; Halpin, John. "Voter Trends in 2016". Center for AmericanProgress. Retrieved 2019-03-18. Lozada, Carlos (2020-10-06). What Were We Thinking:...
for $27,000. The mural, titled AmericanProgress, depicts a vast allegorical scene of men constructing modern America, and contains figures of Abraham...
Coalition. Shellenberger founded the pro-nuclear non-profit Environmental Progress in 2016. Shellenberger disagrees with most environmentalists over impending...
The Forum for the Progress and Integration of South America (Spanish: Foro para el Progreso e integración de América del Sur, PROSUR; Portuguese: Fórum...
than one million Turkish-Americans who add to the rich culture and fabric of our country. Remarks at Center for AmericanProgress & Confederation of Businessmen...
Spectrum Endorse Stimulus Package". Center for AmericanProgress Action Fund. Center for AmericanProgress. January 27, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2010...
Ian Millhiser is an American legal journalist and senior correspondent for Vox. He previously wrote for ThinkProgress as a columnist and worked as a senior...
former president, and now chair and counselor, of the Center for AmericanProgress (CAP), a think tank in Washington, D.C., as well as a visiting professor...
was devoted solely to mail for Long. Long's newspaper, now renamed AmericanProgress, averaged a circulation of 300,000, with some issues reaching over...
radical Islam" to Americans. Critics of the group, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for AmericanProgress, describe it as a hate...
large corporations, pollution, and corruption in American politics. Historian Alonzo Hamby describes American progressivism as a "political movement that addresses...
Relations. Partial owner of the Boston Celtics. Member of Center for AmericanProgress Board of Directors "Tech investing pioneer Hutchins bets on blockchain"...
Phoenix. In 2009, Smith was an artist-in-residence with the Center for AmericanProgress. In Spring 2012, Smith was the first artist-in-residence at Grace...
Senator Ken Salazar. McDonough was a senior fellow at the Center for AmericanProgress in 2004. In 2007, Senator Barack Obama's chief foreign policy advisor...
Global Information