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Chief among the earliest names in Western Art, the New Yorker Frederic Remington can easily be considered one of the forefathers of the style. Having experienced first hand the very last breaths of the Wild West as it exists to this day in the collective imagination of the United States and beyond, Remington would establish a path to be followed by many other Western Artists, knowingly or not, including Charles Marion Russell. His influence on the genre was such that the artist and illustrators who depicted that somehow fantastic time and place would often be called the School of Remington, although that might have been more due to the artist’s talent for self-marketing than to his actual influence on other artists’ work.
In this oil on canvas, which is considered one of Remington’s masterpieces, the artist provides us with an epic rendition of the fight for survival in the wild American Plains. The characters, five stereotypical cowboys, lay flat against the dry banks of a watering hole, rifles ready to repel the incoming attack launched by the Plains Indians, who can be seen on horseback in the distance. The cowboys’ horses stand on the lower area of the watering hole, around what little water is left to drink. As such, the cowboys are seen here to be protecting not only their immediate survival against the aggressive enemies but also any chance that they might survive further, represented here by the horses, their livelihood and only means of transportation out of the arid plains, and the water which provides not only the strategical advantage of its banks but also bears the promise of prolonged survival.
Now in possession of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, the 1903 painting was first reproduced in Collier’s Weekly, a magazine with which Remington had a contract that entailed the publication of one monthly picture. That contract enabled the artist to further experiment in his technique, having a guaranteed buyer for whatever he might produce. That experimentation can be seen here in the form of looser brushwork, more refined work with composition, the development of an increasingly bolder color palette, and the addition of a psychological dimension to his art. The latter is especially egregious in this work, with Remington choosing to hide the peril from the observer, focusing instead on the character’s reaction to dangers taking place outside the frame.
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