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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...