EXPLORING THE WEST, NIGHT AND DAY, WITH BRUSH AND COLOR – The extraordinary creative metamorphosis of Frederic Remington

FREDERIC REMINGTON 1/3 – He was an American painter and writer, who specialized in depictions of the Old American West (specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry). He was born in Canton, New York, and Remington’s father was a colonel in the Civil War (whose family arrived in the United States from England in 1637).

FREDERIC REMINGTON 2/3 – Remington’s nocturnes are filled with color and light, moonlight, firelight, and candlelight. These complex paintings testify to the artist’s interest in modern technological innovations, including flash photography and the advent of electricity, which was rapidly transforming the character of night. Initially, his western images appeared as illustrations in popular journals. About 1900, he began a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night.

FREDERIC REMINGTON 3/3 – One of Remington’s great grandfathers, was a saddle maker by trade, and the Remingtons were fine horsemen. Before his premature death in 1909 at age forty-eight, he completed more than seventy paintings in which he explored the technical and aesthetic difficulties of painting darkness.

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