Carte Frederic Remington Western Art

Frederic Remington quelque chose sur American painter, illustrator, Sculpteur, et writer best known for his art depicting the cowboys, soldiers and Native Americans of the Old West. A native of Canton, New York, Remington found inspire in these subjects from an early age. Hé loved the idea of the frontier and traveled west many times . He greatly amired the rough and heroic cowboys and soldiers he met there, hearing their stories and following their lives in his visits a journaliste/illustrator. On these trips, Remington took a camera and made his own photographis, not as art, but as notes. He carried notebooks and sketched everything from distant horizons to the details of creases on leather boots. He worked for the great magazine of the 1880 s and 1890 s, and produced over 3 000 signed paintings and drawings. Most of them were illustrations, but many were made as art es he turned away from the publishing world and ished masterful art. This Image is called "The Scout - Friends or Foe" and depicts à Indian scout on a snowy western plain gazing a line of mounted travelers in the distance. He is trying to ascertain if they are enemies or comrades.