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 Morris Katz 1997 Signed Oil Painting Venice Canals Gondola Italy Gilt Framed Art $369.95 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 7:34:28 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 April in Paris by Wallace Bassford 1900 1998 oil on canvas painting Florida $299.00 (1 Bid) End Date: Friday May-25-2012 7:54:54 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Wyland Original Watercolor Abstract Painting 1 2 sheet 13000 $3,200.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 9:39:00 PDT Buy It Now for only: $4,000.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Jewish painting Richard McBeeJacobs Ladder Dream $140.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 10:07:53 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 I Am Dog in Blue Limited Edition Print D Meesap NOVICA $170.96 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 11:25:24 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Arthur Garfield Dove 1880 1946 oil on canvas american artist $140.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 12:47:49 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 MARTELLA CONE LANE CALIFORNIA LISTED ARTIST $375.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 13:01:14 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Original Listed Antique Tonalist American Oil Painting WC Fitler New York COA $6,500.00 End Date: Sunday Jun-3-2012 17:01:24 PDT Buy It Now for only: $6,500.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
 WOMEN Original Modern Painting Brazil Fine Art Novica $242.95 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 13:01:24 PDT Buy It Now for only: $269.95 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Mid Century Modern Original Oil A Night of Dancing Expressionism $64.99 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 13:48:23 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Mid Century Modernism Unusal Abstract and Poetic Vision in Oil American Art $55.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 14:15:43 PDT Buy It Now for only: $65.00 Buy It Now | Bid now | Add to watch list |
 Important Painting of Justin McCartys Shoe by His Father John1899 $400.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 14:19:56 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
 OLGA CHANDONET MID CENTURY MODERNISM FOLK ART PAINTING 1940S CANADIAN AMERICAN $66.00 (10 Bids) End Date: Friday May-25-2012 14:26:12 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Mid Century Modern Expressionism Original Oil Girl With White Hair Blue Beret $58.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 14:55:00 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 John Heber Stansfield well listed Utah artist Native American portrait $26.00 (2 Bids) End Date: Friday May-25-2012 14:57:37 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Mid Century Cubist Abstract Painting by American Artist Paul Nabb 1956 $100.00 End Date: Saturday Jun-23-2012 8:51:23 PDT Buy It Now for only: $100.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 A QUIET PLACE Original watercolor by Tom Barnes $575.00 End Date: Friday May-25-2012 15:44:00 PDT Bid now | Add to watch list |
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 Rare Painting by Vietnamese Master Artist Le Pho 1907 2001 $16,500.00 End Date: Thursday May-31-2012 14:06:56 PDT Buy It Now for only: $16,500.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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 Learning the Quran Frederick Bridgman oil paint repro $199.00 End Date: Sunday Jun-10-2012 10:48:42 PDT Buy It Now for only: $199.00 Buy It Now | Add to watch list |
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What reactions do you get when you look at the painting American Progress by John Gast?
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I use this image early on in my western history classes for several reasons. First, even students with little experience in talking about visual images find it easy to talk about what they see here. Second, students quickly grasp that although the painting does not convey a realistic representation of actual events, it nonetheless expresses a powerful historical idea about the meaning of America’s westward expansion. This sparks a discussion about the ways in which ideas—whether grounded in material fact or not—can both reflect and shape human actions. Finally, after a discussion of the larger cultural ideas embodied in this image, we move to a discussion of Frederick Jackson Turner’s celebrated 1893 essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” Students quickly perceive that while Turner had a way with words, his argument was not wholly original. He distilled ideas already present in American popular thought and many of them are present in this painting, painted some two decades earlier.
As students begin to describe what they see, they quickly realize that they’re looking at a kind of historical encyclopedia of transportation technologies. The simple Indian travois precedes the covered wagon and the pony express, the overland stage and the three railroad lines. The static painting thus conveys a vivid sense of the passage of time as well as of the inevitability of technological progress. The groups of human figures, read from left to right, convey much the same idea. Indians precede Euro-American prospectors, who in turn come before the farmers and settlers. The idea of progress coming from the East to the West, and the notion that the frontier would be developed by sequential waves of people (here and in Turner’s configuration, always men) was deeply rooted in American thought.