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WILLA CATHER’S MY ANTONIA CREATING CONTEXT FOR THROUGH WORKS OF ART

Explore the American landscape as portrayed in art, providing a rich context for understanding Willa Cather’s classic novel, My Ántonia. This guide features notable artworks from the 19th century that capture the essence of the frontier and expansion in America.

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WILLA CATHER’S MY ANTONIA CREATING CONTEXT FOR THROUGH WORKS OF ART

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  1. WILLA CATHER’SMY ANTONIACREATING CONTEXT FOR THROUGH WORKS OF ART

  2. William Ranney (1813-1857), Advice on the Prairie, 1853, Oil on canvas

  3. Adapted from: A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia • Author: Jane Shlensky • Editors: Jeanne M. McGlinn and James E. McGlinn

  4. Thomas Cole, Home in the Woods, 1847

  5. Thomas Cole, Course of Empire—Pastoral State, 1836

  6. Frederick Remington, Argument with the Town Marshall, 1907

  7. Albert Bierstadt, Sierra Nevada

  8. Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo

  9. Jasper Cropsey, Starrucca Viaduct, 1865

  10. George Innes, The Lackawanna Valley, 1855

  11. Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, 1861

  12. Andrew Melrose, Westward, the Star of Empire Takes Its Way, 1867

  13. William S. Jewett, The Promised Land, the Grayson Family, 1850

  14. Currier and Ives, 1871

  15. John Gast, American Progress or Manifest Destiny, 1872

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