Please see photos for additional condition details. The bookends are great looking and would make an excellent addition to your collection. Finally, Buffalo Bill Awakens from His Dream, rises, and saddles his horse. Again, we believe this can be cleaned off easily. Indian's headdress as the others ride off. Both pieces are soiled and the piece with the paint spots has some waxy residue on the bottom of the base. We believe these are paint spots which can be cleaned off. One of the two pieces has a couple of white spots which can be seen in the photos on the warrior’s head and behind him. They have minor wear to the finish, some scratches, some minor stains, and some rust signs. Just a beautiful set of bookends, which deserve a spot in your collection or on your shelves.Ĭondition: The bookends are in very good condition with no losses, breaks, repairs or dings that we could find. A Treasure from Our West from the Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. A beautiful set of bookends of substantial construction. BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST 720 Sheridan Avenue Cody, WY 82414 30 Contact Us. Marks: Both pieces are stamped on the back with the number "169".ĭistinguishing Characteristics - Most Interesting About The Piece: This is a nice pair of bookends with a beautiful, intelligent and very desirable design. Silver nitrate photograph 4 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. James Earle Fraser in His Studio with a Clay Maquette of the 'End of the Trail' Sculpture, ca. The pair weighs almost 3 pounds and 10 ounces. Seated upon a windblown horse, Frasers figure slumps over despondently, embodying the physical exhaustion and suffering of a people forcefully driven to the end of the trail. ![]() Size: Measures ~5" high and the base is ~4 7/8" by ~2 3/8". Origin: Purchased in an estate auction in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Date: Uncertain but most likely sometime in the early to mid 20th century. Please carefully review the photos as they are part and parcel of our description. A great set of bookends worthy of a spot in your collection or on your shelves. Other than that, they have no other markings. The book ends are stamped 169 on the back. This is the scene known as "The End Of The Trail".The casting of the bookends is very well done and shows great details. Even the horse looks tired with its head looking down. The warrior is bent over on the horse with his head down and holding a long lance or spear in under his arm. ![]() The bookends depict the image of an Indian or native American warrior on horseback. Small replica sculptures were soon available, and the silhouetted image decorated bookends, ashtrays, postcards, and even silverware.Description: A pair of vintage cast iron bookends. At the Exposition, this work won the gold medal for sculpture, and its popularity assured the image’s permanence in the minds of American viewers. When the sculpture was displayed at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915-at two and one-half times life size-a guidebook explained, “The Indian has ridden for many a weary day…but alas!…His trail is now lost and on the edge of the continent he finds himself almost annihilated” (James, Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts, San Francisco, 1915, page 34). Influenced by Saint-Gaudens’s aim to create sculpture perceived as distinctly American, Fraser synthesized his French-trained aesthetic with American western subject matter. Following training in Minneapolis and Chicago, he worked in Paris as an assistant to American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The downward momentum pushes the horse and rider toward a small, rocky precipice in defeat and despair.įraser had grown up in the West at the end of the frontier days, hearing stories of the plight of the Indian. His moccasined feet dangle loosely, and his spear points diagonally toward the ground. A forlorn warrior sits slumped on his pony. James Earle Fraser’s sculpture End of the Trail succinctly and pointedly summarized American perception of Native Americans in the early twentieth century. Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2013 End of the Trail by James Earle Fraser
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