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George Loring Brown , (Feb 2, 1814–Jun 25, 1889)

Landscape with Indian and Dog by a Waterfall

19th century
28 1/8 in. x 36 in. (71.44 cm x 91.44 cm)

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Accession Number: 1958.43

Commentary

Displaced and marginalized by mass tourism and industrialization, many indigenous inhabitants of the Niagara Falls region nevertheless saw the tourist boom as key to their survival. Taking advantage of both a European American fantasy that romanticized them as noble savages uncorrupted by modernity (a trope reflected in George Loring Brown’s Landscape with Indian and Dog by a Waterfall, hanging nearby) and a pervasive visual association of the falls with indigenous peoples, they sold quantities of souvenirs they made to tourists. Blending indigenous aesthetics and methods of production with European American forms, these mementos—beaded pincushions and hats, embroidered baskets, and moccasins—satisfied visitors’ desires for authentic, tangible evidence of contact with a picturesque and vanishing race.

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Terms of Criticism Addison Gallery of American Art , 00/00/00 - 5/10/1965
Loan to Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire , 10/7/1960 - 11/13/1960
Survey of the Permanent Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 10/14/1961 - 11/27/1961
Terms of Criticism Addison Gallery of American Art , 7/26/1963 - 12/23/1963
Terms of Criticism Addison Gallery of American Art , 7/15/1966 - 10/3/1966
Tamworth Bicentennial Celebration Tamworth Bicentennial Celebration , 8/7/1966 - 8/13/1966
Boston Painters 1720-1940 Boston University Art Gallery , 3/15/1968 - 4/15/1968
Terms of Criticism Addison Gallery of American Art , 7/18/1969 - 10/19/1969
The Works Addison Gallery of American Art , 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
Nothing is Certain But Change Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/18/1975 - 5/18/1975
Images of Native Americans from Phillips Academy Collections Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology , 10/1/1991 - 3/14/1992
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
The American Land: Selections from the Addison Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 1/19/2001 - 4/8/2001
Heaven and Earth Addison Gallery of American Art , 2/7/2015 - 4/5/2015
Eye on the Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/1/2017 - 7/30/2017
In and Out of Place Addison Gallery of American Art , 2/16/2019 - 7/31/2019
A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/1/2019 - 7/31/2020

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