Artwork Details
- Title
- Goliad Mission, Goliad, Texas, from the series Manifest Destiny
- Artist
- Date
- 2001, printed 2021
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20 × 23 3⁄4 in. (50.8 × 60.3 cm) image: 17 1⁄2 × 21 7⁄8 in. (44.5 × 55.6 cm)
- Copyright
- © Tony Gleaton Used With Permission, Tony Gleaton's Photography Sub Trust All Rights Reserved
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase
- Mediums Description
- digital gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Architecture Exterior — religious — mission
- Object Number
- 2022.38.3
Artwork Description
Tony Gleaton's expansive landscapes and quiet views of man-made structures across the American West construct a history that is largely unknown. In 1999, Gleaton began traveling west of the Mississippi River to continue his career-long quest to research and document the experiences of the African diaspora across the Americas. Pairing evocative images with descriptive text that details events that transpired in specific places, Gleaton reveals how Black people participated in historical events that made the American West, from the Indian Wars to the Texas Revolution, the Gold Rush, Mid-West homesteading, and beyond. Gleaton's motivation was not only to document this forgotten, epic history, but to "undermine perceptions of the genesis of 'the West' [as we've come to see it]."
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea, 2023