num_pages: 188
description: Looks at the landscape paintings of Cole, Church, Bierstadt, and Moran, and shows how their paintings promoted Manifest Destiny and the wasteful exploitation of natural resources
language: English
title: The Magisterial Gaze: Manifest Destiny and American Landscape Painting c. 1830-1865
titlecomplete: The Magisterial Gaze: Manifest Destiny and American Landscape Painting c. 1830-1865
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Smithsonian