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Painted by Frederic Edwin Church.

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Progress by Asher B. Durand.

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Asher B. Durand was most known for painting the painting "Progress", which shows how Manifest Destiny was causing Americans to move into Westward wilderness. This can be seen in a positive or negative way.

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Church often painted the wilderness around the Eastern United States, though many of his paintings convinced European art critics of the true beauty of the United States.

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Beautiful sunset painted by George Inness.

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George Inness was also inspired by the land that North America had to show. George Inness usually painted calming scenes, usually involving the sunset and the colors dancing in the sky. Many believe that he had hidden political opinions in some of his work, marking how the beauty of the West should be preserved.

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Painting representing how the Americans have hunted the beautiful buffalo to extinction by Albert Bierstadt

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Painting of the Stormy Rocky Mountains by Albert Bierstadt.

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Albert Bierstadt was originally a German painter, but can back to America to adore the amazing Western United States. Albert commonly painted scenery  in and around the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains.

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Painting of Niagara Falls from a distance by Thomas Cole.

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Thomas Cole was the founder of the Hudson River, and was in awe by the landscape of North America. Cole not only shared paintings of the beautiful waterfalls and grant rivers of Western America, he also painted pictures that showed the progression of "Manifest Destiny" (etc. The Oxbow).

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Painting of the border between the wild and the civilized. This was painted by Thomas Cole.

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Painting of Old Faithful in Yellowstone by Thomas Moran.

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Painting created by the Artist Thomas Moran of Hudson River School.

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Thomas Moran was an painter and explorer that was heavily influenced by the Westward Movement. He often painted western landmarks such as the Grand Canyon. When these painting reached Europe, many Europeans believed that he was a fraud because of how beautiful and colorful the trees were.