Frederic Remington Art Museum Collection

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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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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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Remington the Artist and the Man.......2007-07-14

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.

remington book.......2007-01-14

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

Remington Rocks!.......2005-10-08

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!

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Complete and detailed

Frederic Remington: The Color of Night
Nancy Anderson
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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ASIN: 0691115540

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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.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

National Gallery of Art, Washington
April 13 - July 13, 2003

The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
August 10 - November 9, 2003

Denver Art Museum
December 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004

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Complete and detailed.......2003-12-30

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.

Remington & Russell and the Art of the American West

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Remington & Russell and the Art of the American West
Kate F. Jennings
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Love Rocks & a Little Mystery? This book is for You
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Weakened by unsympathetic heroine, unlikely motivation
wonderful and intelligent mystery with a twist

Earth Colors (An Em Hansen Mystery)
Sarah Andrews
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ASIN: 0312301979

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Em Hansen, the popular heroine at the center of Sarah Andrews's unique geology mystery series, has landed a new job, although an unusual one: a client affiliated with a museum wants Em to investigate a painting by the famed western painter Frederick Remington. The client believes it's a fake, but Em must explore the painting's provenance to find out. The project takes her through Wyoming, Utah, Washing-ton, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Halfway through the trip Em finds she's also chasing a murderer: someone is slowly poison-ing her client. Before long, her innocent research project has taken a sinister twist, and it's up to Em to find out what's going on in time to save her client's skin, not to mention her own. Earth Colors is another smart, inventive mystery from fan favorite Sarah Andrews.

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Love Rocks & a Little Mystery? This book is for You.......2005-03-16

I love detective stories and this one looked good. This was the first of the Sarah Andrews books I have read. I was not disappointed! As an amateur rock hound who enjoys collecting agates and fossils, I loved the geological aspects of this book. I learned a lot about paint pigments, the historical origins of paint, and how artists through the years used the various tinctures to create works of beauty.

As a detective novel, the book had lots of twists and turns and keeps you guessing right up to the end. The relationships between Em and characters in the book were well developed. You empathize with her and her struggles at this point in her life. I will definitely read more books by this author!

Very negative.......2004-12-09

This is not a good book. I also am a woman geologist (hydrogeologist)and I am increasingly offended by the whiny, bitter, unsympathetic portrayal of a prototagonist (if that word can be used)who seems unable to pull herself together enough to finish a degree and get and hold a job. Besides these twin destroyers, Em also has unending relationship problems with the men in her life.

Finally, the basic premise is silly. Since other reviewers have outlined the plot, I'll just say that the idea that someone would get a totally unqualified geologist (as opposed to, say, an art historian, curator, or someone else who deals with art for a living)to authenticate a painting is rediculous.

I found this to be a very negative,pessimistic book. Such a contrast to "Bone Hunter", which is a delight to read.

Weakened by unsympathetic heroine, unlikely motivation.......2004-05-10

Em Hansen is waiting out her life--waiting for her boyfriend to return from whatever overseas operation the military sent him on, waiting for her friend's baby to grow older, waiting while she struggles with ideas for her Master's thesis in geology. In the meantime, she sponges off of her mother, lives rent-free with her equally impoverished friend Faye Carter, and visits western art museums to check out the fabulous paintings by Remington. When Faye meets up with an old school friend, she offers Em a way to solve all of her problems. Tert Krehbeil has a possible Remington he'd like tested for authenticity and he's willing to pay Em to use her geological skills to identify the pigments used in painting. It's an opportunity to make some money and pick up a thesis topic. And Faye gets some dates out of it with the handsome Tert.

Em's detective instincts warn her that something is wrong with the deal--and with Tert, but she can't turn down money. She soon finds herself investigating--and stepping on toes in the FBI who has their own investigation going on. But if Em's fears are right, she's stumbled into something even more serious than paint forging--something very much like murder.

Author Sara Andrews offers interesting information about the pigments used in 19th century painting (most of them poisons) and in the dangers of suburbinization. Despite these strong points, I found Em to be unsympathetic--too concerned with her own pathetic life, bitter with her mother for not taking better care of Em's prospective inheritance, and angry with Faye for not getting on with her life--as if Em was doing better with her own. I also had a hard time understanding why Terc would ask for Em's advice (let alone pay for it) in the first place. As an art dealer, surely he had plenty of contacts he could use and trust without opening up to a complete stranger.

EARTH COLORS isn't a bad mystery--it certainly kept me reading. But the unsympathetic protagonist dragged me out of the complete involvement a reader has a right to expect in a first-class mystery.

wonderful and intelligent mystery with a twist.......2004-03-28

For geologist Em Hansen her latest assignment is odd in terms of how she got the job while babysitting the infant daughter of her friend Faye Carter "don't call me" Latimer and what her client Tert Krehbeil who's affiliated with a museum hires her to investigate. Tert wants to know whether a painting allegedly done by renowned western artist Frederick Remington is genuine especially since the coloring is a bit different than the painter's usual works.

Em begins tracking the history of the painting, taking her from Cody, Wyoming where she had been visiting museums with baby Sloane when she got the job to Utah, Washington DC and Pennsylvania. However, the complex investigation turns ugly when someone begins poisoning the family members of Em's client. Soon Em realizes she may be on the short list of a killer whose motive is murky, but whose means and opportunities have been on target.

Though this tale starts differently than the fabulous previous treasures as Em is hired for her sleuthing reputation more than her bone hunting geological skills, EARTH COLORS is a wonderful and intelligent mystery. The story line combines two subplots that of the masterpiece investigation with a series of murders in which Em is the point of convergence. Though the art inquiries could have sustained the plot without the homicide fault line that feel more by the numbers than usual for this unique series, fans will enjoy Sarah Andrews' latest gold dust entry in what remains one of the most refreshing sleuths of the past few years.

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Thomas Molesworth has inspired a new generation of men and women who, today, are leading the country in western revival by crafting quality furnishings of leather, driftwood, swollen burls, and peeled poles. This book takes a fascinating look at the Arts & Crafts tradition--the way it was then and the way it continues now. Functional, comfortable, and often whimsical, the works shown here are representative of the furniture and accessories that are so popular today. Paperback; 140

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Incredible western interiors!.......1999-12-09

Wonderful ideas and examples of western/cowboy interiors for every room of the house. Great index in the back of the book. However, the authors should have included where to buy and or locate the different pictured products next to the items for easy access!

Outstanding Ideas for home decorating.......1998-08-23

The pictures are high quality and provide a real sense of "Cowboy Country." The listings on the back of the book provide all the manufacturers, retailers that you can contact to order cowboy artifacts. I had been searching for a book with a Ralph Lauren look to decorate our new home. The information and history was very interesting and informative.

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Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington
Peggy Samuels , and Harold Samuels
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Frederic Remington.......2006-01-20

Peggy and Harold Samuels are art dealer with a special interest in Frederic Remington, whose general artistic theme was the American West. Together they edited Remington's COLLECTED WRITINGS and published THE COMPLETE PRINTS (the latter subsequent to this biography), so it only seems natural that they would attempt a biography of the artist. The result is an exhilarating and detailed portrait of the man and the artist.

Remington was born in 1861 in upstate New York and studied art at Yale and the Art Students League in NYC. In 1880, he went out to the West for his health and began sketching western scenes and cowboys and Indians, which he sold first in Kansas City and then back East to magazines (especially HARPER'S WEEKLY). That magazine sent him all over the country. With his bride Eva, he spent two years in the West in the 1880s visiting military posts, Indian villages, and even traveling with the cavalry on campaigns. The illustrations and painting born of these trips (he returned to the West many times and covered the Spanish-American War as well) made him famous and wealthy. He also wrote books, mainly short story collections with western themes (PONY TRACKS was probably the best), but his success there never matched that as an artist. Late in his life he added sculpture to his oeuvre, producing two dozen pieces. He died of appendicitis at his estate in Connecticut in 1909.

The book opens in January 1908, with Remington feeding many original paintings into a large bonfire in his backyard, work he no longer cared about. The Samuels believe that he was consciously making a break with his past and was about to go off in a new direction, ending his career as a commercial illustrator, craving a wish to be considered a "serious" painter of the Impressionist school. The Samuels focus heavily on Remington the artist in this biography, yet because of their judicial use of his diaries they are able to capture the man as well as the artist. It's a fascinating work on a multi-faceted man. Highly recommended.

The Song of Hiawatha - Frederic Remington Illustrated Edition

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The Song of Hiawatha - Frederic Remington Illustrated Edition

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Special edition that contains 387 illustrations of Indian artifacts.

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Frederic Remington
Peter H. Hassrick
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Release Date: 1988-12-12

Frederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind

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Frederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind
Ben Merchant Vorpahl
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Prentice Mulford's Story
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1889. Prentice Mulford was a humorist of California literature. His philosophy and humor intrigued many readers in his articles of European travels published in the 'Golden Eye,' 'Overland,' and the San Francisco Daily Press. This story is an amusing account of his experiences in California. The illustrator attended the Yale School of Fine Arts and is unsurpassed in his works on the West.

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The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s. The result of these efforts was the Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves that today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA. Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. The interviews afforded aged ex-slaves an unparalleled opportunity to give their personal accounts of life under the "peculiar institution," to describe in their own words what it felt like to be a slave in the United States. -Norman R. Yetman, American Memory, Library of Congress This paperback edition of selected Mississippi narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally typed.

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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves (Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives)

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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves (Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives)
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Slave Narratives: Mississippi Narratives

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"Bold defiance took its place"--"respect" and self-making in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.(Critical essay): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

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"Bold defiance took its place"--"respect" and self-making in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.(Critical essay): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
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Four slave narratives from the old north state.(North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones)(Book ... An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2004. The length of the article is 3143 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews With Former Slaves, Mississippi Narratives

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When my Missis took me away from the river bottom I lived in Poolesville where the Kohlhoss home and garage is. I worked around the house and garden. I remember when the Yankee and Confederate soldiers both came to Poolesville. Capn Sam White (son of the doctor) he join the Confederate in Virginia. He come home and say he goin to take me along back with him for to serve him. But the Yankees came and he left very sudden and leave me behind. I was glad I didn't have to go with him. I saw all that fightin around Poolesville. I used to like to watch em fightin. I saw a Yankee soldier shoot a Confederate and kill him.

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