3709 - James Earle Fraser, "End of the Trail"

James Earle Fraser, "End of the Trail" 2014/15, signed on the plinth; on the front, a plaque bearing the sculptor’s name and the title, as well as a reference to the Gilcrease Museum, bronze with a brown patina, a museum replica of the sculpture exhibited at the International Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, which takes a critical view of settler colonialism and the confinement of Indigenous peoples to reserves, depicting a Native American slumped exhausted on his wind-tossed pony; on a naturalistic plinth, mounted on a marble base; well preserved for its age; bronze height 34.5 cm, total height 37.5 cm. Artist’s biography: American sculptor and medallist (1876, Winona, Minnesota - 1953, Westport, Connecticut); studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1891, later at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris; a long-standing assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Fraser became known above all for his monumental bronze sculptures depicting subjects from the ‘Wild West’ as well as for major government commissions in Washington D.C., including works for the Supreme Court and the National Archives; his iconic masterpiece ‘End of the Trail’ (1915) is regarded as one of the most widely reproduced sculptures in American art history, he also created the famous design for the ‘Buffalo Nickel’ (1913), was a member of the National Academy of Design and a recipient of the Saltus Medal. Source: Wikipedia.