Summary Of Going East By Walter Ufer

The painting Going East by Walter Ufer is recently a part of the exposition A Place In The Sun recently taking place at the Denver Museum of Art. The large oil on canvas painting was made in 1917 by an American painter whose artworks help to understand the processes of life in the twentieth century. At that time, Walter Ufer, as many other Taos painters, expressed support to the native people in terms of creating their expression in the paintings.
The artwork depicts a pilgrimage scene of several Indian people crossing the sunlight terrains. The group includes two women and two men with a horse on their annual trip to Blue Lake. They are crossing the unfavorable landscape with the massive mountains in the background while the blue sky seems