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The Frontier
During the Revolutionary period, American looked to expand their borders and become bigger. Eventually, President T. Jefferson bought up Lousiana area and made the idea of "Manifest Destiny" known. -
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Crystal Bridges Art
This time span contains the three chosen works of art for my Composition class. -
War with Mexico
The politics of frontier expansion cause war with Mexico and helped decide a presidential election by 1844. -
Asher Brown Durand
Durand had become president of the New York Drawing Association and held that position for 16 years. -
Kinderd Spirits by Durand
Kinderd Spirits is in Crystal Bridges, an art museum, that is located in the Bentonville-Rogers area. It was painted in the year 1849 by Asher Brown Durand using oil and canvas to paint this painting. -
The Backwoods of America by Jasper Francis Cropsey
The Backwoods of America by Jasper Francis Cropsey was painted in 1858. It was painted by oila and canvas. This work is also in the Crystal Bridges art museum. -
Jasper Francis Cropsey
He decided to paint the ideal pioneer life, the land being developed at a very fast pace. -
The Transcontinental Railroad
The first ever Transcontinental Railroad was completed by 1869. -
Thomas Moran
He traveled west as part of a federally funded scientific survey of Yellowstone and the Wyoming territory. His painting of Green River is an idealized version. -
Green River, Wyoming by Thomsa Moran
Green River, Wyoming was created in 1878 by Thomas Moran. He painted the painting using Oil on Canvas. -
End of the Frontier
A historian by the name of Frederick Jackson Turner, by 1890, had declared that the western Frontier had dissapeared, however the American ideal of Manifest Destiny and American expansion did not disapear and changed instead.
