Antique End of the Trail print

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.