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Frontier painting

In painting the romance of the American cowboy, Remington knew instinctively what would grip his audience and held it fast.

In the summer of 1885 a young artist from New York by way of Kansas City found himself resting by a campfire with a couple of prospectors out in Arizona Territory at a time when Geronimo was on the prowl, perhaps “even in our neighborhood.” It was about 9 o’c

William Cary, traveling west on the Missouri, recorded the life and landscape of a rapidly vanishing frontier

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