American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints.
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The sky was never as beautiful as it was before 1492
Fuck this shit showing my ancestors as the darkness being pushed away.
Should have been called America’s Shame.
Nice but the giant lady needs a repeating rifle and some smallpox blankets.
It’s not even wrong to like railroads, school books, electricity, farming and America, all the centuries of backbreaking work by ordinary unremarkable people that went into building the paradise land that a lot of Americans got to inhabit until Reagan ruined it for the rest of us. But yes, Mr. Gast is definitely missing a whole other side of the coin.
It appears to be themed after Virgo, goddess of the prophesied golden era.
I just finished watching this pbs doc:
The American Buffalo
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo
It’s actually about how the buffalo’s decimation in the 1800s greatly accelerated the destruction of native American Indians’ way of life. This shouldn’t be news to anyone, but then again the show should be required viewing for every American, as a reminder.
As far as death angels go, that’s is an average-sexy looking one.