This piece depicts a group of Indigenous Americans as they move across the quiet planes. The mesa (Spanish for table), flat top mountains, or hill, in the middle distance cut this painting in half vertically. The tranquility of the sky is juxtaposed with the quiet sadness below. The expansive sky is interrupted only by the tips of the mountains in the distance, while the dusty earth beneath is cover in brittle weeds and marching people. As the group moves to their destination, likely displaced by settlers, they leave plumes of sand and dirt behind them, kicked up by their powerful steeds.
SKU: 45501
Creator: N.C. Wyeth
Date: 1908
Original Medium: Oil on canvas
Original Size: 36 1/4 x 26 1/8 in.
Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston