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

2 Frederic Remington The best known western artist of all time, who helped define how cowboys and Indians looked on their galloping horses, and influenced countless other illustrators throughout the years, is brought back to you courtesy of Diego Cordoba. Although Remington belonged to the ‘Golden Age of Illustration’ established in America from the end of the nineteenth century to the early part of the twentieth, he was so well known that contemporaries of his such as Charles Russell and Charles Schreyvogel (his main competition) were known as members of the ‘School of Remington’. In fact, we can hardly begin talking of Western Art without mentioning Remington, although there were earlier artists in America that had painted the American West. However, it was Remington who best captured the action of cowboys and Indians in the Wild West through paintings, etchings, drawings and sculptures. It must be said that there was a ‘before and after’ Remington in the way of depicting a galloping horse. Before Remington, horses were drawn galloping along FACING PAGE: An Episode of the Buffalo Hunt, also known as A Buffalo Episode, oil on canvas, 1908. This also became a bronze sculpture. ABOVE: The boisterous Remington, photograph ca. 1890s. BELOW: Ridden Down , oil on canvas, 1905.