John Gast

Male, Person

1989 –

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Who is John Gast?

John Gast was a Prussian-born painter, printer and lithographer who 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. Other than that, little is known about him.

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Born
Feb 16, 1989
Germany

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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