Details
- Term
John Gast
- Alternate Term
Gast, John
- Occupation/Role
artist
- Nationality/Ethnicity
American
- Date
1842-1896
1842-1896
- Remarks
John Gast was born in 1820, in Berlin, Prussia. He lived and worked most of his life in Brooklyn, New York. He is most famous for painting American Progress, an allegory of Manifest Destiny that was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints.
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