<em><strong><span class="field-content">Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap</span></strong></em>
<strong>Westward expansion</strong>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">This is a popular American painting addressing the theme of westward expansion. Rich with symbolism, it helped establish the mythic status of Daniel Boone and legends of western settlement. <strong></strong></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content"><strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb </span></strong>Bingham drew from Christian and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion and the ideal of Manifest Destiny, or the providential mission of the American nation to settle the frontier. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">Referring to Boone's first journeys into Kentucky in the early 1770s, the group is pictured traveling from east to west, dramatically emerging from the sun-filled landscape in the background and crossing into the dark, foreboding landscape in the foreground, where the snarled trees help signify the dangerous power of nature.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">Portrayed with idealized features and poses, the intrepid Daniel Boone, a rifle resting on his shoulder, suggests the figure of Moses - an archetype for pioneer patriarchs - leading his people toward the Promised Land, while Rebecca Boone, atop the horse, suggests the Virgin Mary, symbolizing the courageous spirit of pioneer women.</span></strong></p>
<strong><span class="field-content"><strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb </span></strong>Bingham</span></strong>
<p><strong>Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum</strong></p>
<p><strong>Washington University in St. Louis</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/193</strong></p>
<p><strong><br /></strong></p>
<strong>1851-1852</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<div class="views-field-obj-material-s"><strong><span class="field-content">Oil on canvas</span></strong></div>
<div class="views-field-obj-crate-s"><strong><span class="field-content">36 1/2" x 50 1/4 "</span></strong></div>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><span class="field-content">Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap</span><br /></strong></em>
<strong>Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny, Daniel Boone</strong>
<strong><span class="field-content">Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham's Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap is among the most popular American paintings addressing the theme of westward expansion. Rich with symbolism, it helped establish the mythic status of Daniel Boone and legends of western settlement. Like Charles Wimar in The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians (1853, WU 4355), Bingham drew from Christian and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion and the ideal of Manifest Destiny, or the providential mission of the American nation to settle the frontier. Referring to Boone's first journeys into Kentucky in the early 1770s, the group is pictured traveling from east to west, dramatically emerging from the sun-filled landscape in the background and crossing into the dark, foreboding landscape in the foreground, where the snarled trees help signify the dangerous power of nature. Portrayed with idealized features and poses, the intrepid Daniel Boone, a rifle resting on his shoulder, suggests the figure of Moses - an archetype for pioneer patriarchs - leading his people toward the Promised Land, while Rebecca Boone, atop the horse, suggests the Virgin Mary, symbolizing the courageous spirit of pioneer women.</span></strong>
<strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb Bingham</span></strong>
<p><strong>Mildred Lane Kemper Museum</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/19um</strong></p>
<strong>1851-1852</strong>
<strong><span class="field-content"><span class="field-content">Gift of Nathaniel Phillips, 1890</span></span></strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<div class="views-field-obj-material-s"><strong><span class="field-content">Oil on canvas</span></strong></div>
<div class="views-field-obj-crate-s"><strong><span class="field-content">36 1/2" x 50 1/4 "</span></strong></div>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong>Daniel Boone protects his family</strong></em>
<strong>Westward expansion and the frontier</strong>
<strong>Daniel Boone fighting with a Native, as his wife cowers over their son on the left.</strong>
<strong>Henry H. Schile</strong>
<p><strong> Library of Congress </strong></p>
<p><strong>Prints and Photographs Division </strong></p>
<p><span><strong>Washington, D.C.</strong> </span></p>
<strong>1874</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Colored lithograph</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still image</strong>
<em><strong>Boone's First View of Kentucky</strong></em>
<strong>Westward expansion, Manifest Destiny</strong>
<p><strong><strong></strong>Daniel Boone is pointing out toward the west, and the future state of Kentucky.</strong></p>
<strong>William Ranney</strong>
<p><strong>Indianapolis Museum of Art</strong></p>
<p><strong>Indianapolis, Indiana</strong></p>
<strong>1849</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<div class="value"><strong>Etching</strong></div>
<div class="mercury-mdd mdd-dimensions"><br /><div class="value"><strong>5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (image) </strong></div>
<div class="value"><strong>8 1/2 x 11 in. (sheet)</strong></div>
</div>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still image</strong>