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1861 - 1909 • American • Painter/Sculptor • Western/Romantic
"Big art is the process of elimination. Cut down and out-do your hardest work outside the picture, and let your audience take away something to think about-to imagine." - Frederic Remington
In the 1830s CATLIN went West to document the life of Native Americans; in 1859 BIERSTADT documented the scenery of the West; and in the late 1880s Remington, from upstate New York, began to portray the new popular hero, the western cowboy. He became the most popular magazine illustrator on the subject. His cowboy was the heroic broncobuster, and he showed the frontier as a life and death struggle. One of his best-known paintings is a dramatic picture of eight cowboys on their horses galloping straight toward the viewer with a band of Indians in hot pursuit-A Dash for the Timber (1889). He probably used MUYBRIDGE's motion photographs to understand the horse in full gallop. Remington began sculpting, also cowboys, in 189 5. He portrayed what his contemporary Frederick Jackson Turner called the "restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom." But the West as he first saw it changed rapidly. In 1903 Remington said, "My West ... put on its hat, took up its blankets, and marched off the board." His words echo those of Turner who said, "And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history."
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