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Carol Wilson

About Carol Wilson

Carol Wilson is the Lunder Education Chair at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study for the United States Capitol), 1861, oil on canvas, 33-1/4 x 43-3/8 inches (Smithsonian American Art Museum) — Pioneers and frontiersmen, creating an American mythology amidst the Civil War

Envisioning Manifest Destiny

by Carol Wilson and Dr. Steven Zucker

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study for the United States Capitol building), 1861, oil on canvas, 84.5 x 110.1 cm (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Sara Carr Upton, 1931.6.1) — Daniel Boone, Moses, and the western frontier: creating an American mythology

Envisioning Manifest Destiny

by Carol Wilson and Dr. Steven Zucker