John Mix Stanley美国, 1814–1872Osage Scalp Dance
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《Osage Scalp Dance》现在在哪里？ 收藏方: 史密森尼美國藝術博物館, 華盛頓哥倫比亞特區. 不明.
華盛頓哥倫比亞特區, 美國
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Melodramatic tales of scalping were popular in Europe and the United States throughout the nineteenth century. John Mix Stanley’s operatic scene shows a villain wielding a war club over a desperate woman's head. A hero who wears a presidential peace medal blocks the club with his spear. By the time Stanley painted this canvas, the government had already begun to subdue native peoples by relocating tribes and fostering warfare among them. This "divide and conquer" policy, together with thrilling narratives of white captives carried off to slavery, helped ease the consciences of European Americans making their way across the continent. Stanley based this fictional image on sketches he made while traveling through the frontier territories in 1842 and 1843.
Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
史密森尼美國藝術博物館
作品信息
- 馆藏编号
- 1985.66.248,930
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- 史密森尼美國藝術博物館
- 图片： 史密森尼美國藝術博物館 — CC0
