Wenona's Leap, Lake Pepin, Mississippi River

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Wenona's Leap, Lake Pepin, Mississippi River

Seth EastmanLinkedCulture matchlcp-5f3997061495

Date
1851
Medium
Watercolor
Department
Arts of the Americas
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
6338

This meticulous landscape is Seth Eastman's illustration for a story interpreted and then published by his second wife, Mary Henderson Eastman. In Mary’s version, young Wenona’s parents wanted her to marry Chaskè, a good hunter, but she loved another. One day, while her friends hunted porcupines along the shores of Lake Pepin along the Mississippi, they watched her jump off a cliff; this work depicts the moments before her leap. As Mary recounted in “The Maiden’s Rock; or, Wenona’s Leap”: “She was there indeed, loudly and wildly singing her dirge, an invocation to the Spirit of the Rock, calm and unconcerned in her dangerous position, while all was terror and excitement among her friends below her.” United States, Americas

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Gift of the W. Duncan and Nivin MacMillan Foundation

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