FREDERIC REMINGTON: The Color of Night

Anderson, Nancy K.; Frederic Remington

ISBN 10: 0691115540 / ISBN 13: 9780691115542

Published by Princeton University Press, 2003

About this Item

4to, 228 pp, VG+ in gilt-stamped cloth in mildly shelfworn pictorial dust jacket. 136 full-page color plates + 24 b&w text illustrations. Wonderful exhibition catalog of Remington's night paintings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FREDERIC REMINGTON: The Color of Night
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691115540
• ISBN 13: 9780691115542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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. This richly illustrated volume is the first to present all of these works - some seventy paintings that secured for 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. In these deeply personal works, 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 Remington's dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the spare modernism of his late work. "Frederic Remington: The Color of Night", accompanying the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes three insightful essays discussing 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. As the definitive resource on 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.

About the Author

Nancy Anderson is Associate Curator of American and British Painting at the National Gallery of Art, where she has recently served as curator and principal catalogue author for the retrospective "Thomas Moran". Alexander Nemerov, professor of art history at Yale University, is the author of "Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America". William C. Sharpe is professor of English at Barnard College and the author of "Unreal Cities".