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Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study, U.S. Capitol)
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (born Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 1816-died Washington, DC 1868)
1861
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 33 1/4 x 43 3/8 in. (84.5 x 110.1 cm.)
- Culture
- Indians of North America
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Sara Carr Upton
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
