Custer
Here Fell Custer 1976,
acrylic on canvas
"Of the hundreds of depictions of Custer's
Last Stand, this painting rates as the most haunting and evocative
of what it must have been like at that moment on Custer Hill.
There is no glory here, only a dark landscape littered with death
and tragedy." -- Robert Utley, Historian and
Author
"Like most Last Stand art, Eric von Schmidt's
Here Fell Custer is haunting, but no rendition till Eric's
captured the true scale of the battlefield and with that, a visceral
sense of how it must have been for the soldiers. That, and the skill
with which he has rendered the qualities of confusion, strife, and
lost cause, is what makes his painting so disquieting. Unlike with
any other, the viewer has an instant sense of being there--the
realism is THAT real--and thus with it, the horror and hopelessness
Custer's men faced. We will never know what it was really like atop
that hill that day, but Eric von Schmidt, I think, has brought us
closer to the genuine actuality than anyone ever has and perhaps
ever will." Chuck Rankin, Senior Editor University of OK Press
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