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Michael
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The Sioux woman in American artist William Gilbert Gaul’s “The Land of the Free” stands firmly and solitarily. Her gaze out across the wide Western landscape is reverent, contemplative. She possesses the wisdom that only years of experiences can cultivate, and she draws upon it face the world. While depictions of Native American men standing alone in majestic landscapes are common in American paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, solitary renderings of women in such environments are rare. This Sioux woman is wrapped in a Navajo blanket and perched atop a craggy valley rendered in thick oil impasto. The Sioux often chose high places like mountain peaks, as depicted here, to bury their dead, and women mourned alone. The work’s title borrows from the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” used by the U.S. military during this time — well before it became the national anthem in 1931. William Gilbert Gaul, familiar with tribal funerary traditions from his experiences with the Sioux, may have set this twilight scene at its “last gleaming” to evoke the destruction done by U.S. forces against Native American communities at the turn of the century. William Gilbert Gaul, sometimes called Gilbert Gaul, was a late 19th and early 20th century American painter and illustrator of military subjects ranging from the American Civil War to World War I, as well as American Western vistas and scenes like this one. In 1882, Gaul was elected to the National Academy of Design when he was 27 years old. Later, he was awarded the medal of the American Art Association, the medal of the Paris Exposition in 1889, two bronze medals of the Chicago Exposition in 1893, the medal of the Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and a gold medal at the Appalachian Exhibition of 1910 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The Sioux woman in American artist William Gilbert Gaul’s “The Land of the Free” stands firmly and solitarily. Her gaze out across the wide Western landscape is reverent, contemplative. She possesses the wisdom that only years of experiences can cultivate, and she draws upon it face the world. While depictions of Native American men standing alone in majestic landscapes are common in American paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, solitary renderings of women in such environments are rare. This Sioux woman is wrapped in a Navajo blanket and perched atop a craggy valley rendered in thick oil impasto. The Sioux often chose high places like mountain peaks, as depicted here, to bury their dead, and women mourned alone. The work’s title borrows from the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” used by the U.S. military during this time — well before it became the national anthem in 1931. William Gilbert Gaul, familiar with tribal funerary traditions from his experiences with the Sioux, may have set this twilight scene at its “last gleaming” to evoke the destruction done by U.S. forces against Native American communities at the turn of the century. William Gilbert Gaul, sometimes called Gilbert Gaul, was a late 19th and early 20th century American painter and illustrator of military subjects ranging from the American Civil War to World War I, as well as American Western vistas and scenes like this one. In 1882, Gaul was elected to the National Academy of Design when he was 27 years old. Later, he was awarded the medal of the American Art Association, the medal of the Paris Exposition in 1889, two bronze medals of the Chicago Exposition in 1893, the medal of the Buffalo Exposition in 1901, and a gold medal at the Appalachian Exhibition of 1910 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

“The Land of the Free” by William Gilbert Gaul (American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1900 - Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, Texas) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #sioux #womensart #BlantonMuseumofArt #artwork #WilliamGilbertGaul #Gaul #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist #NativeAmerican #mourning #GilbertGaul

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