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The End of the Trail is a sculpture by James Earle Fraser. Fraser created the original version of the work in 1894, and he subsequently produced numerous replicas in both plaster and bronze. The sculpture depicts a weary Native American man, wearing only the remains of a blanket and carrying a spear.
The End of the Trail, the magnificent iconic statue standing in the entry of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum signifies a Native American and his horse, both weary in body and spirit at the end of their journey.
Fraser's sculpture End of the Trail. Among his earliest works were sculptural pieces at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and, for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, one of his most famous pieces, End of the Trail.
The End of the Trail, James Earle Fraser’s 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 ...
Jan 15, 2010 · END OF THE TRAIL. Created by American-born sculptor James Earle Fraser (1876–1953), End of the Trail, a representation of an American Indian on horseback, has endured to become one of the most recognizable images in the United States.
Feb 19, 2014 · James Earle Fraser's End of the Trail is one of the most iconic works featured in The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925.
End of the Trail. Drawn from Fraser’s experiences growing up in Dakota Territory in the 1880s, this exhausted Native man seated on a windblown pony is an evocative comment on the damaging effects of Euro-American settler colonization on Indigenous peoples.
Jan 6, 2016 · End of the Trail by James Earle Fraser. James Earle Fraser’s sculpture End of the Trail succinctly and pointedly summarized American perception of Native Americans in the early twentieth century. A forlorn warrior sits slumped on his pony.
When displayed at the 1915 Panama - Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, End of the Trail was instantly recognized as one of the defining images to come out of America's...
Objects conservator Ann Boulton shares some history of James Earle Fraser's "End of the Trail" and what it's like restoring a bronze cast model of a timeless...
