WILLA CATHER’S
MY ANTONIA
CREATING
CONTEXT FOR
THROUGH WORKS
OF ART
William Ranney (1813-1857), Advice on
the Prairie, 1853, Oil on canvas
• 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
Thomas Cole, Home in the Woods, 1847
Thomas Cole, Course of Empire—Pastoral
State, 1836
Frederick Remington, Argument with the Town
Marshall, 1907
Albert Bierstadt, Sierra Nevada
• Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo
• Jasper Cropsey, Starrucca Viaduct, 1865
George Innes, The Lackawanna Valley, 1855
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course
of Empire Takes its Way, 1861
Andrew Melrose, Westward, the Star of Empire
Takes Its Way, 1867
• William S. Jewett, The Promised Land, the
Grayson Family, 1850
• Currier and Ives, 1871
John Gast, American Progress or Manifest
Destiny, 1872