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A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891
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A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

Medium

Woodblock

Dimensions

block: 4 13/16 x 7 1/16 x 13/16 in. (12.2 x 17.9 x 2.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946

Classification

Blocks

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Frederic Remington

1861–1909United States

Remington is known as one of the premier artist of the American West. During the 1880s, he traveled through the Dakotas, Montana, the Arizona Territory, and Texas, returning to New York in 1885, with the desire to record the vanishing wilderness. In 1895, he began to exhibit his bronzes of cowboys and horses in motion. After 1900, his illustrative style shifted to one of Impressionism, as he became influenced by the work of Monet, Childe Hassam, and John H. Twatchman. In addition to his paintings and sculpture, he wrote eight books and numerous short stories on the Wild West. Comment on works: western