Frederic Remington: 173 Drawings and Illustrations

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Superb drawings and illustrations of the American frontier in its last phase, all beautifully reproduced on coated stock. Indians, cavalrymen, cattle, buffalo, cowboys, gold seekers, gamblers and many others. Four color illustrations on covers.

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Customer Reviews

Don't Waste Your Money!
UMMM, I tried to rate it a '0', not available!

What they don't mention (ah, they are circumspect!) is that EVERY picture is in glorious black and white. Yes, you could do as well with a trip to the library and use their photocopier!

2004-06-10 (Stanley, KS United States) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 1

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Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection

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Few American artists are as enduringly popular as Frederic Remington (1861-1909). His bronzes and paintings of the American West have become iconic images, shaping the way Americans view the history of the West. This generously illustrated volume is the first to examine the exceptional collection of his works housed at the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York.

In his richly detailed portrait of the artist, Western art scholar Brian W. Dippie traces Remington’s life and artistic development. Drawing extensively on Remington’s letters, diaries, and other archival materials, Dippie explores some 100 of the most important works in the collection in the context of prevailing social, cultural, and political attitudes—including the ethnic and racial stereotypes for which Remington’s work is sometimes criticized today. An important addition to the Remington literature, this handsome volume highlights Remington’s impressive range and underscores his achievements as an illustrator, sculptor, and painter.

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Cowboys and horses, adventure in wide-open spaces. The mythos of the Old West comes alive in the paintings, drawings, and sculptures of Frederic Remington (1861-1909). Born during the Civil War and educated at Yale University, Remington committed his life to making portraits of the American frontier. The Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection presents the collection of the museum founded by and housed in the former home of Remington's widow, Eva Caten Remington.

For much of his creative life, Remington worked as an illustrator for publications like Harper's Weekly. His renderings of life in the Old West were hugely successful, and some even accompanied an essay by President Theodore Roosevelt. His drawings displayed a strongly believable atmosphere:

[Remington's] illustrated scenes from the Apache War were rendered in a direct, spare and unsentimental style with an attention to detail that made them seem like snapshots of specific incidents. In truth, like much of Remington's reality, they were generalizations, not documents, created by extrapolating freely from firsthand observations.

Today Remington's work is often seen as problematic, and as evidence of the racist brutality that wiped out the American Indian culture and population. Of course, in Remington's time, his views of the frontier reflected those of most of the United States. Aside from these political complexities, Remington's work captures the imagery of a time and a landscape long gone. If you are fascinated by the Old West, then you should not miss this book. The book includes detailed commentary on the paintings and drawings, with 333 illustrations and 127 full-color plates. --J.P. Cohen

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Customer Reviews

Amazing History
A fantastic pictorial record of history, giving a flavour of the atmosphere surrounding events that complements contemporary sources and academic writing on the times.

2008-07-21 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Remington the Artist and the Man
I have long been a fan of Remington's work. This book presented new material on both his work and on his life. I was impressed with the details presented in this book. I only wish there were even more samples of his work included in the book. I would have then given it a rating of 5 stars.

2007-07-14 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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remington book
bad reproductions of colour "sketches" by the artist-sadly his best work was not present.

2007-01-13 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 2

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Remington Rocks!
I recently purchased this book for my husband. The book is fascinating and traces the history of Remington's art. I had no idea the vast body of work created by this talented artist. The book clearly details many facts and interesting tidbits. The picture plates are wonderful. Fabulous book!

2005-10-08 (Hellertown, PA) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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Frederic Remington (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

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Presents a biography of Frederic Remington

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Customer Reviews

Fantastic Book for Young Artists
Fantastic Book for Young Artists

Absolutely wonderful child friendly books about artists.

2010-03-10 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Mike Venezia has lots of fun teaching young kids about the art of Frederic Remington
I have read a couple dozen of Mike Venezia's books in his Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artist series, and although I have not kept a careful count this volume on "Frederic Remington" might have more illustrations than any of the others. There are thirteen paintings by Remington, to go along with three magazine covers, three etchings, three cartoons, and one bronze sculpture. There are also three photographs of Remington, a painting by another artist, and nine of Venezia's cartoons. So that is three dozen illustrations (and I would say that Venezia does not even use some of Remington's most famous paintings, such as "The Scout: Friends or Foes?" and "The Fight for the Waterhole"). As you would expect, most of the paintings represent the Old West, but there is also one from his coverage of the Spanish-American War ("Charge of the Rough Riders").

The point of these books is to introduce children to art and artists, and Venezia will not only provided biographical details on Remington's life, but insights into his art work. So Venezia talks about how Remington liked to paint running horses, and to make viewers wonder what was going to happen next and use their imagination to figure things out. The biographical part pretty much comes in the middle of the book, and then Venezia returns to examining Remington's work, including the way how he painted American Indians in his films changed over time. Consequently, whether you are a younger reader or one of the older variety, you will understand the basic details of Remington's life and the key themes of his artwork.

I always like the way Venezia uses humor to help his young readers learn key things about these artists. For example, when Remington became more successful he put on a great deal of weight and began working from a rocking chair (so he could easily lean back to view his work and quickly move forward to start painting again). So Venezia draws himself trying out both of Remington's technique and I would like to see young readers forget that image once they have seen it. There are more volumes in the Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series than there are illustrations in this particular volume, so you can keep checking out more of Venezia's books to learn about artists from Botticelli and El Greco to Picasso and Van Gogh, all done in the same spirit of fun. Bet you cannot read just one.

2006-05-16 (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Frederic Remington

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Superb, full-color large-scale reproductions of paintings by the artist whose name is synonymous with the American West are accompanied by drawings and sculptures immortalizing the cowboys, native Americans, and others who populated the Old West.

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In the Remington Moment

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Frederic Remington: The Color of Night

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In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night. This richly illustrated volume is the first to present all of these works--some seventy paintings that secured for Remington the critical acclaim he so coveted. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, and sculptor of America's vanishing frontier.

In these deeply personal works, Remington explored the technical and aesthetic difficulties of painting darkness. Surprisingly, his images are filled with color and light--moonlight, firelight, candlelight. Focused on the subject the artist had made his own--the American West--these paintings reflect Remington's dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the spare modernism of his late work.

Frederic Remington: The Color of Night, accompanying the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes three insightful essays discussing Remington's nocturnes within the literary, historical, aesthetic, and technological context of his time. The nocturnes do much more than document a night that was rapidly disappearing under bright, newly installed electric lights. They also reveal how this son of a Civil War hero moved from burnishing Theodore Roosevelt's rough riding heroics in Cuba to exploring, like Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, his own soul-searing war experience, and, like Joseph Conrad, to probing America's own heart of darkness.

As the definitive resource on Remington's nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings--including newly conserved works and others not seen publicly since the artist's death--with commentary from his personal diaries and letters and from contemporary critics.

December 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004

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Customer Reviews

Breathtaking!
I knew very little about Remington's works before buying this book. I had of course, seen many of the famous paintings, but I hadn't really looked seriously at this man's work. Frankly, the cover of this book caught my eye and then the themes of its compositions are what inspired me to buy. I was not disappointed. What a great introduction to the works of this very fine artist. Of all the books I have seen on Remington's paintings, this one is still by far, my favorite.

The printing of the paintings are very well done. They are so well reproduced that at times I felt that if I touched the print I would feel the brushstrokes. Each painting is also printed on one page alone which eliminates the annoying "lost in the gutter" effect of a two page spread. The prints themselves range in size from 8X6 to 6X9 (portrait) and generously cover as much of the page as possible. There are also diary notes from Remington's hand as well as commentary which gives context. There is also a section in the back that breaks down several of Remington's paintings as well as his palette and technique as put forth by those conservation experts who have restored some of his work.

I am very much drawn to the dramatic and entertaining qualities of paintings and works that are set during the night as well. There's so much inherent drama in the light and in the mystique of that time, that I very much enjoy when artists explore those hours in their own works. Maybe everyone is like this, but I enjoy the stillness and gentleness that seems to overcome the world after dark. Seeing that same love of night in this artist and his works has been very rewarding.

All in all, a really great buy and a very fine book. I think you'll like it.

2009-05-28 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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the nocturnes
This book is replete with Remington's night scenes. For the working artist/illustrator, this is the Bible of scenes depicting night and other low-light situations. As always, Remington's compositions are things of wonder.

2008-06-28 | Roberts (Haverhill, MA United States) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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Complete and detailed
This book is divided in parts.
In the first part you will find the biography of Remington and all his artwork
In the second, there are all the "The color of the night" paintings in big size with the description of each one.
As a bonus, there is a brief study of the technique that used Remington to paint these great paintings.
Great book about a great artist.

2003-12-29 (Argentina) | Helpful Votes: 20 | Rating: 5

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