A work from the current exhibition: RETHINKING MONUMENTS: AMERICAN SCULPTURE IN ITS TIME, 1850-2000
James Earle Fraser "The End of the Trail" 1918 Tired. Exhausted. Defeated. What other words come to mind as you look at this sculpture? The artist claims it was based on a Native American man he saw in the Dakota Territory in the 1880s. But Indigenous artists depicting their own experience in the same period show subjects with strength and resilience, resisting genocidal intrusion into their ancestral homelands. Think about how this sculpture, seen by millions, shaped attitudes toward Indigenous people in the United States.
This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of the Art Bridges Initiative.
Original source can be found here.
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