Artwork Details
6 x 7-1/8 in. (image) 9-1/4 x 12-5/8 in. (sheet)
Mark Descriptioninscribed in pencil, below image, L.L.: 100 proofs/To Mrs. Hatfield/John Sloan N.Y.C. 1929 | inscribed in pencil, below image, L.C.: The Indian Detour | signed in pencil, below image, L.R.: John Sloan
Accession NumberMcKee Fine Arts Purchase Fund
CopyrightPurchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1987.
The Indian Detour was the name of bus tours organized by the Fred Harvey Company in 1926 that transported tourists from the Harvey House Hotels along the Santa Fe Railway to various Pueblo ceremonies.
Joan Sloan, who had established a summer home in Santa Fe in 1920, like many other resident artists, found these bus tours such gawking intrusions into sacred Native American rituals that he lampooned them in this etching.
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