Abandoned homestead, Corson County, South Dakota
Artist:
Danny Lyon
(American, born 1942)
Date: 2000
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Ernest Pomerantz and Marie Brenner
Object number: 2018.20.80
Portfolio: Indian Nations
Copyright: © Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos
Label Text
A simple clapboard home stands alone in the prairie; the day’s laundry hangs undisturbed on a line. Drawn from Danny Lyon’s Indian Nations series these images feature the vast plains while alluding to a history of human presence. Corson County, located in the Standing Rock Reservation, and the Rosebud Reservation are home to Sioux people of the Dakota and Lakota Nations. Both areas were once part of the sixty-million-acre Great Sioux Reservation, established in 1868. Over the next several decades, the U.S. government formed smaller reservations, then stole land from the Native Americans and opened the region to White settlers. Lyon spent over four years documenting Native American tribes who reside in the Great Plains and Southwest. (Group Label, Lana Meador, 2021)
Not on view
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