The Stampede
by Frederic Remington
Title
The Stampede
Artist
Frederic Remington
Medium
Painting - Painting
Description
The Stampede by Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington's 1908 painting Remington Stampede is a late work in the artist's oeuvre, yet demonstrates his characteristic take on life in the American West, resonating with his recurrent theme of subjects in a life-threatening dash. Shunning landscape at a time when it was the norm and turning his back on the art-world of Europe, Remington was a charismatic and macho persona who became fascinated with the living legends he found on his numerous travels to the Western Frontiers. The artist's initial expedition to the burgeoning lands of the western United States, undertaken in 1881, proved to be a shrewd and lucrative career move. Eventually consolidating his position as an enterprising populist painter, Remington's first submission of a sauntering cowboy to the leading magazine Harper's Weekly, would be one of a long line of commissions that would embed his unique vision in the American consciousness. Depicting less what life was like in the tough lands of the western frontier and reflecting more what city-dwellers believed the reality to be, the artist became the favorite artist of the rough-and-tumble, macho President Roosevelt.
Largely responsible for much of the public image of late-nineteenth century cowboys, Remington's figurative reproductions were a slightly caricatured view of the rural workers. Remington's portrayal of the horses in movement was greatly influenced by the rapid-action photographs of Muybridge. Indeed in Remington Stampede the figurative reproduction of the horses galloping limbs are fully airborne, a fact only proven by Muybridge's 1887 photographic study. Remington is therefore an artist deeply embedded in a photographic mindset and attractive to an audience that wanted a heightened sense of realism that the cold reproductions of a camera's provided. His stirring visions of a dramatic frontier helped to solidify the image of cowboys that would come to dominate the embryonic medium of film that would flourish some decades later.
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