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 Author Name: Nancy Anderson
Title: FREDERIC REMINGTON: THE COLOR OF NIGHT
Binding: Hardcover
Type: BOOK
Publisher: Princeton
ISBN Number: 0691115540 / 9780691115542
Seller ID: 1032073
These magnificent nocturnes marked an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator, writer, & sculptor of America's vanishing frontier. Focused on the subject the artist had made his own--the American West. 136 color illus, 24 halftones; 10x11 inches, 208 pgs.
'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.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
National Gallery of Art, Washington
April 13 - July 13, 2003
The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
August 10 - November 9, 2003
Denver Art Museum
December 13, 2003 - March 14, 2004
REVIEWS:
"The best book about [Remington] currently in print."--Library Journal
"An unusually candid glimpse of an artist and his work."--American Artist
ENDORSEMENT:
"This new and imaginative look at Remington's night pictures secures the artist's place in the history of American art, rather than exclusively in the history of western American art, and promises to attract a large audience from aficionados of the West to those interested in a cultural history of early-twentieth-century America. Remington's works are well known by most museum goers and beloved by a segment of an even wider public. Clearly written throughout, this book will put him literally in a new light for these and new audiences. By connecting Remington's pictorially and psychologically darkest pictures to Whistler's nocturnes; to Crane, Conrad, and Hemingway; and to the new technologies of electric light and flash photography, Anderson, Nemerov, and Sharpe bring Remington into the twentieth century and give him the place he deserves in a modern world."--Carol Clark, Amherst College
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Director's Foreward vii
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction by Nancy K. Anderson 10
What's Out There' Frederick Remington's Art of Darkness by William C. Sharpe 16
Dark Disquiet: Remington's Late Nocturnes by Nancy K. Anderson 52
Burning Daylight: Remington, Electricity, and Flash Photography Alexander Nemerov 76
The Nocturnes: A Catalogue 96
Appendix: Notes on Conservation by Ross Merrill, Thomas J. Branchick, Perry Huston, Norman E. Muller, Robert G. Proctor, Jr., and Jill Whitten 196
Lenders to the Exhibition 218
Select Bibliography 219
Index 223
ABOUT THE AUTHOR & CONTRIBUTORS:
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.
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