Art Institute of Chicago
Historians of the Tribe
Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)LinkedCulture matchlcp-9c671eda15f1
- Date
- 1890–99
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- New York
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 97909
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Executed around 1890, the year when the massacre at Wounded Knee effectively ended the army’s conflict with the Plains Indians, Historians of the Tribe clearly situates the glories of Native Americans in the past. In a tightly defined, darkened interior, watched over by a tribal elder in the central background, five men—their postures slumped or languid in surrender—record and reread their hieroglyphic history. At the moment of their defeat, Remington chose to depict his Native American subjects with a certain sentimentality.
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- Credit line
- George F. Harding Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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American Western and Military ArtThese objects are connected through their depiction of American frontier life, military subjects, and Western themes, primarily from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with several works appearing to be by Frederic
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