“I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever… and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.” … Frederic Remington
Perhaps more than any artist, Frederic Remington can lay claim to have painted and sculpted the old American west. Today, we might see this as a bit of romantic fiction, but there exists a certain affinity with his subjects, whether Native American, settlers or of course, horses. Somewhat surprisingly, Remington spent much of his life in upstate New York…just across the border in Ogdensburg (the Remington Museum is well worth a visit).
In 1900 he wrote to his wife: “Shall never come west again-It is all brick buildings-derby hats and blue overalls-it spoils my early illusion-and they are my capital”.
Break-a-Brush!
David
“He is, of course, one of the most typical American artists we have ever had, and he has portrayed a most characteristic and yet vanishing type of American life. The soldier, the cowboy and rancher, the Indian, the horses and the cattle of the plains, will live in his pictures and bronzes, I verily believe, for all time.” Theodore Roosevelt, 1907.