Antique photographic print 'The End of the Trail' after the James Earle Fraser iconic bronze sculpture symbolizing the genicide of the Native American people. Original presented under glass in a painted art deco wood frame
9 x 12"
The End of the Trail, James Earle Fraser’s (American, 1876–1953) best-known sculpture, has come to symbolize the genocide of Native American peoples amid relentless westward expansion. In 1894, the year after the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the 17-year-old Fraser, then a student at the School of the Art Institute, produced the first version of this bronze sculpture. (The Art Institute’s sculpture is a later model and cast.) Reenforcing the conception of the so-called vanishing Indian, the work portrays an exhausted Sioux drooping over his equally weary pony; both rider and horse have reached the end of the trail.
