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James Earle Fraser (November 4, 1876 – October 11, 1953) was an American sculptor during the first half of the 20th century. His work is integral to many of Washington, D.C.'s most iconic structures.
James Earle Fraser. born Winona, MN 1876-died Westport, CT 1953. Sculptor and assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Fraser designed the buffalo nickel and his End of the Trail (1915), an image of an exhausted Indian hunched over his tired horse, is one of the most recognized sculptures of the American West.
- November 4, 1876
- October 11, 1953
The American sculptor James Earle Fraser was one of the most foremost portrait sculptors of his generation. Raised in South Dakota, he was the son of a railroad engineer and saw with his own eyes the pioneer and commercial expansion westwards, and the resulting subjugation of Native Americans.
Overview. Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings. Provenance. Title: End of the Trail. Artist: James Earle Fraser (American, Winona, Minnesota 1876–1953 Westport, Connecticut) Founder: Cast by Roman Bronze Works. Date: 1918, cast 1918. Culture: American. Medium: Bronze. Dimensions: 33 x 26 x 8 3/4 in. (83.8 x 66 x 22.2 cm)
19 de feb. de 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. First modeled in 1894, the sculpture is based on Fraser's experiences growing up in Dakota Territory; as he wrote in his memoirs, "as a boy, I remembered an old Dakota trapper saying, 'The Indians will someday ...
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.
James Earle Fraser (American, 1876–1953) Cast by Gorham Co. Founders. 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 ...
