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Exhibitions: In and Out of Place

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Artist(s): George Loring Brown (Boston, MA, Feb 2, 1814 - Jun 25, 1889, Malden, MA)
Title: Landscape with Indian and Dog by a Waterfall
Date: 19th century
Dimensions: 28 1/8 in. x 36 in. (71.44 cm x 91.44 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Museum purchase, 1958.43

This object is a member of the following groups (click any group name to view all objects in that group):

Themes: Ecology
Exhibitions: In and Out of Place
Themes: MLC Portfolio: Representing the Land
Exhibitions: A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century America

Object Information

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 History

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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