Frederic Remington: The Color of Night

Frederic Remington (1861-1909)

In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that took as their subject the color of night.

Magnificent nocturnes

This richly illustrated volume is the first to present all of these works - some seventy paintings that secured for Frederic Remington the critical acclaim he so coveted. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, and sculptor of America's vanishing frontier.

Remington explored the technical and aesthetic difficulties

In these deeply personal works, Frederic Remington explored the technical and aesthetic difficulties of painting darkness. Surprisingly, his images are filled with color and light - moonlight, firelight, candlelight. Focused on the subject the artist had made his own - the American West - these paintings reflect Frederic Remington's dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the spare modernism of his late work.

Nocturnes

Frederic Remington: The Color of Night, accompanying the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes three insightful essays discussing Frederic Remington's nocturnes within the literary, historical, aesthetic, and technological context of his time. The nocturnes do much more than document a night that was rapidly disappearing under bright, newly installed electric lights. They also reveal how this son of a Civil War hero moved from burnishing Theodore Roosevelt's rough riding heroics in Cuba to exploring, like Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway, his own soul-searing war experience, and, like Joseph Conrad, to probing America's own heart of darkness.

Frederic Remington's nocturnes

As the definitive resource on Frederic Remington's nocturnes, this volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings--including newly conserved works and others not seen publicly since the artist's death, with commentary from his personal diaries and letters and from contemporary critics.
Frederic Remington: The Color of Night by Nancy Anderson
ISBN: 0691115540

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