Study for Westward Movement: Justice of the Plains
artnet
http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-steuart-curry/study-for-westward-movement-justice-of-the-plains-a-484q5WinWaCurD_s1wSsXQ2
Painting
14 x 32 in. (35.6 x 81.3 cm.)
fineartamerica
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/amber-waves-of-grain-james-bo-insogna.html
The Patterson Foundation
http://impact.blog.thepattersonfoundation.org/category/sarasota-national-cemetery/page/4/
Descandants of William Lett's
http://www.brockwayfamily.com/journal/Letts/letts.htm
Museum of the American West
Los Angeles, CA
Oil on canvas
Height: 64.8 cm (25.51 in.)
Width: 116.8 cm (45.98 in.)
Mr. Grayson became very wealthy in the West and commissioned this painting to tell his family’s story. He gave specific instructions to the artist, William Jewett, about the clothing, the setting, and other details in the portrait.
The people shown are the Graysons, and they were part of the great westward expansion of the United States during the mid-1800s.The Graysons traveled overland from Missouri to California in 1846, two years ahead of the Gold Rush that drew so many more fortune seekers to California.
Mr. Grayson became very wealthy in the West and commissioned this painting to tell his family’s story. He gave specific instructions to the artist, William Jewett, about the clothing, the setting, and other details in the portrait.
Terra Foundation for American Art
Daniel J. Terra Collection
Chicago, Illinois
Oil on canvas
50 3/4" by 64"
This painting has come to represent the ideal of Manifest Destiny.
This painting is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book as well. The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation.
This painting has come to represent the ideal of Manifest Destiny.
Museum of the American West
Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA
Oil painting
12 ¾” x 16 ¾”
Over the course of fifty years, almost 400,000 people traveled the 2,170-mile route, leaving their farms along the East Coast in hopes of securing fertile land in the Oregon Territory.
American artist Albert Bierstadt documented his journey on the trail, capturing the dramatic panoramas and indomitable spirit of the emigrants on his oversized canvases. With their rich colors and pristine details, these romanticized images roused an already fascinated American public to begin their own westward adventure.
]]>Redefined by territorial expansion in the mid-1800s, the boundary of the American West shifted from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, fueled largely by exploration and emigration along the Oregon Trail, among others.
Over the course of fifty years, almost 400,000 people traveled the 2,170-mile route, leaving their farms along the East Coast in hopes of securing fertile land in the Oregon Territory.
American artist Albert Bierstadt documented his journey on the trail, capturing the dramatic panoramas and indomitable spirit of the emigrants on his oversized canvases. With their rich colors and pristine details, these romanticized images roused an already fascinated American public to begin their own westward adventure.
Oil on canvas
67" x 102"
United States Capitol, Washington D.C.
Architect of the Capitol
http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/other-paintings-and-murals/westward-course-empire-takes-its-way