This museum is dedicated to the preservation and appreciation of American painting. With a collection of over 500 works of art, visitors can explore the history and development of American painting from the colonial period to the present. The museum features works by renowned American painters such as John Singleton Copley
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American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked during the 1870s in 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.