About
"A Dash for the Timber" 
the American public who enjoyed the romantic notion of the disappearing world of
action and adventure in the untamed West.
Accuracy was very important to Remington, not only
in the details of clothing and objects, but also in
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Item #FA147 / $950.
"A Dash For The Timber" by Frederick Remington (1861-1909) Framed Giclee Print Original (Oil on Canvas, 1889) in the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
In A Dash for the Timber, the viewer
sees riders being pursued by a group of Indians.
They all gallop toward the viewer across a dusty plain. Some of the eight
cowboys or prospectors have turned in their saddles to shoot at the pursuing
Indians. On the left side of the painting is the edge of a group of trees where
the men might hope to find safety. The sun is shining brightly, and Remington
has made the resulting shadows a deep blue-violet. This painting had strong
appeal for About the Artist Frederic Remington grew up in New York State, near the Saint Lawrence River.
Though his artistic training was
limited to only three semesters at the Yale College of Art and
three months at the Art Students League in New York, he became an influential
portrayer of the American West. His first trip to the western U.S. was in 1881,
when he vacationed in the Montana Territory. Two years later Remington
moved to Kansas. While working to become a successful artist, he struggled at
several different ventures that included a sheep ranch, a hardware store, and a
saloon. He returned to New York City in 1885 and began to do illustrations for
Harper's Weekly, the largest pictorial newspaper at that time in the world. He
soon became one of their best artists.
From 1885 to 1888,
Remington made several trips to the southwestern United States to report on the
U.S. Cavalry and the Apache
Indians. The landscape and the dramatic events he witnessed were an important
influence on his development as an artist. He
wrote observations in his diary, made
many sketches, collected artifacts, and took photographs with the latest
photographic equipment available. Back in his New York
studio, Remington used these aids to
develop paintings that were as realistic as possible in every detail. A Dash for the Timber launched Remington's career as a major painter when it was first exhibited in 1889. That year, Remington and his wife, Eva, were wealthy enough to buy a large house with stables outside New Rochelle, New York. Only a few years earlier in Kansas, he had been a struggling artist. But, by 1890, at the age of only twenty-eight, he was a celebrity, one of the best known artists in this country.** About Giclee Prints Pronounced 'zhee-klay', the term "giclee print" connotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas. The giclee printing process provides much better color accuracy than other means of reproduction. The quality of the giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries. Numerous examples of giclee prints can be found in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Chelsea Galleries. Recent auctions of giclee prints have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Close, and $22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans (April 23/24 2004, Photographs, New York, Phillips de Pury & Company.) *** Remington Glicee / Item #FA147 / $950. Click Here To E-mail Us About This Remington Giclee Contact Us To Arrange Your Purchase *Frederic Remington: The Masterworks, Michael Edward Shapiro ** www.art.unt.edu *** www.gicleeprint.net
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