From Blacks’ Backs to Others’: Looking Westward

• Emanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Way (Westward Ho!)

  • Original sketch, p.154
  • Finished work in U.S. Capitol, p.197

• What’s changed between these two versions?

• What has Leutze’s title derived from Cole’s Course of Empire series?

• What idea of “America” or “Americans” can we derive from the works of this time period that we’ve seen?

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