The Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine,
Texas, has scheduled to exhibit selected
works by Frederic Remington from the
Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York, in September 2013.
Treasures from the Frederic Remington
Art Museum exhibit are a natural fit at
the Museum of the Big Bend due to its
truly remote and Western location as well
as the museum’s close proximity to Fort
Davis where four regiments of Buffalo
Soldiers, Cavalry and Infantry, were stationed at various times from 1867
through 1885. Remington had a close relationship with Theodore Roosevelt and
Roosevelt had witnessed the heroic deeds
of the black soldiers during the SpanishAmerican War in 1898. In 1904, Roosevelt included members of the black
regiments in his presidential inauguration parade.
Frederic Remington’s career was as dynamic as Roosevelt’s. Schooled in the demands
of
magazine
illustration,
Remington worked hard for his fame. He
invested long hours in the studio, researched his subjects in books, in the
field, and by personal correspondence,
taught himself color theory to overcome
the limitations of working in black and
white and investigated the science of
casting to perfect his sculptures.
Remington gained fame as an illustra-
tor of works depicting the West that had
already vanished, the world, work and
spirit of the American cowboy, frontier
cavalry soldier and the Native American
warrior. In the final decade of his career,
magazine contracts and steady sculpture
sales released Remington from the demands of illustration. He developed a
more painterly style, and though his audience still demanded the Western subjects that brought him fame, Remington
devoted more of his attention to the landscape of his youth and summers, New
York’s North Country.
Treasures form the Frederic Remington Art Museum will tell the story of
Remington’s incredible career in bronze,
oil, watercolor, pencil, pen and ink and
wax on paper. Included in the exhibit is
the iconic bronze, Broncho Buster, along
with twenty-five other works.
The Museum of the Big Bend is located
on the campus of Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. The museum is
open Tuesday through Saturday, 9am to
5pm and on Sunday, 1 to 5pm and is
closed Monday. Parking and Admission is
free, donations are gladly accepted.
For more information, contact
Noemi Acosta at [email protected]
or at 432-837-8143
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Left: “The Charge of the Rough
Riders Up San Juan Hill”
Background: “Broncho Buster”