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End of the Trail by James Earl Fraser in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 2020

End of the Trail by James Earl Fraser in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 2020
End of the Trail
1918, cast 1918

James Earle Fraser American


Object Details

Title: End of the Trail

Artist: James Earle Fraser (American, Winona, Minnesota 1876–1953 Westport, Connecticut)

Date: 1918, cast 1918

Culture: American

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: 33 x 26 x 8 3/4 in. (83.8 x 66 x 22.2 cm)

Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of the American Wing Fund, Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert Gift, Morris K. Jesup and 2004 Benefit Funds, 2010

Accession Number: 2010.73


Drawn from Fraser’s experiences growing up in Dakota Territory in the 1880s, this exhausted Native American seated on a windblown pony is an evocative comment on the damaging effects of advancing Euro-American settlement on the Indigenous population. “End of the Trail” exemplifies the western subjects created by such French-trained artists such as Fraser, who were expressing themselves at once as American, through their choice of themes, and as modern, through their command of current aesthetics.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/20461

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