EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 27 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

1 Cover Image: Frederic Remington Illustrators The Book Palace Jubilee House Bedwardine Road Crystal Palace London SE19 3AP Email: IQ@bookpalace.com Web: www.bookpalace.com Contact GW: gw@bookpalace.com Tel: 020 8768 0022 (From overseas +44 20 8768 0022 ) Publisher: Geoff West Executive Editor: Peter Richardson Editor & Designer: Diego Cordoba Consultant Editors: Norman Boyd, David Ashford Features Writer and Layouts: Diego Cordoba Website: Paul Tanner Subscriptions & Distribution: David Howarth Advertising: ads@bookpalace.com illustrators ISBN 978-1-907081-81-1 ISSN 2052-6520 Issue Number Twenty-Seven Autumn 2019 Copyright © 2019 by The Book Palace Ltd. All text and artwork copyright is vested with the respective creators and publishers. None of the material within these pages may be reproduced without the written consent of illustrators or the aforementioned copyright holders. The images reproduced within these pages are for research purposes and all efforts have been made to ensure their historical accuracy. illustrators is published quarterly. Back issues £20 each plus postage 4 issue subscriptions UK £55 POST FREE includes 4 free digital issues EU/USA £70 POST FREE includes 4 free digital issues ROW £75 POST FREE includes 4 free digital issues Available in the USA from budplant.com Trade Orders : IQ@bookpalace.com Printed in China by Prolong Press Ltd ISSUE TWENTY-SEVEN EDITORIAL Pack your guns and saddlebags, pardner, because this issue we’re going west—the WildWest that is. Yes, we’ll be heading back in time, all the way to the nineteenth century to a land where men were men, and women—well, they don’t seem to figure much according to Western artists. The Wild West has been a subject of reverie to both children and adults, and artists and movie-makers alike. There was a time in the mid-twentieth century when Hollywood was producing over 400 films a year, half of themWesterns. But what was the fascination all over the world with Westerns, its myths and untold realities? Didn’t we all play cowboys and Indians as children? Well, at least before the advent of video games, the internet, and sexual predators keeping children off the streets. We start this issue with the most renowned Western artist of all time, Frederic Remington. He brought the American West back to the attention of a population that was beginning to forget about it with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Maybe Remington was responsible for giving us a mythical ideal of valiant cavalrymen, whooping Indians and vast grassy fields where the buffalo once roamed. Whether his paintings depicted any truth or not is beyond the point. He showed us a rugged land where man fought nature and came out victorious. Although by now he has been forgotten by the general public, our second feature centres around the artist who happened to be Remington’s main rival. Charles Schreyvogel, a New Yorker whom Remington claimed had never been to the West and that his paintings weren’t historically accurate, was not as prolific as Remington (he hardly did more than a 100 paintings in his lifetime), but was considered the best Western painter during the earlier part of the past century. Lastly, we bring back the most popular Western hero of all time (who never existed), a mysterious masked rider who with his faithful Indian friend rode the West fighting evil and bringing justice to the land. If I tell you he had silver bullets in his guns, you’ll immediately knowwho I’m talking about. Yessir, Kemo Sabe and Tonto are back in the saddle again. DC The opinions expressed in illustrators are those of the writers, and are not necessarily those of the editor and publishers. The accuracy of the authentication of all images is the responsibility of the contributors. CONTENTS 2 The master of western artists who wanted to be considered a painter and not a mere illustrator. 93 94 46 The western artist who was considered a painter and not an illustrator. Charles Schreyvogel Frederic Remington The most popular western hero of all time came from a radio show and not the Wild West. 70 The Lone Ranger From The Inside 96 The Gallery The Bookshelf A breathtaking sample from John Ford Clymer’s ‘widescreen’ paintings. Western comic strips and books on contemporary western artists. The search for fine art among Hollywood stars proves disastrous.