GOULD, A.C. [ed.,] - REMINGTON, COZZENS et al.. Sport or fishing and shooting.. Bradlee Whidden,, Boston, 1889.

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Description: Large folio. 15 magnificent chromolithographs after original watercolours, entitled: Killing Salmon, Moose Hunt, Trout Fishing, Fly-Fishing for Black Bass, Catching a Tarpon, Hunting Antelope, Mallard Shooting, A Wild Turkey Hunt, Catching a Mascalonge, Sailing for Bluefish, Hunting the Deer, A Day with the Chickens, A Hunt above the Timberline, Goose shooting and Stalking the Wapiti. Original half natural linen and red cloth. Few artists of the American West can equal the breadth of experience of Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909). From the Santa Fe Trail to the Oregon Trail, he came to possess firsthand knowledge as a rancher, a military scout, a hunter and trapper, and as a reporter. Few of his contemporaries were as devoted to capturing the three brief decades that saw the taming of the expansive and dangerous western frontier. Looking back at his career in 1905, Remington wrote: "I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever.and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded." His evolving clarity of purpose and the naturally vivid subject matter inspired Remington to compulsively record details, producing thousands of illustrations in the course of his twenty-three year career. Remington's ability to capture narrative made his work ideally suited to the field of illustration. His father, Seth, had been a journalist and Remington relished the opportunity to provide visual manifestation to a story. This, coupled with his sense of adventure made him an exceptionally successful illustrator most notably for the celebrated journal Harper's Weekly. The accuracy, immediacy and drama of his drawings fused his functions as artist and historian and in 1907 Theodore Roosevelt offered this blunt praise: "He has portrayed a most characteristic and yet vanishing type of American life." Remington was born in Canton, New York and related by blood to the painter George Catlin and sculptor Earl W. Bascom. Following his graduation from Yale's new art school in 1880, Remington roamed the country west of the Mississippi for five years. His drawings began appearing regularly in Harper's Weekly in 1886, answering the popular need to know about America's wilderness, the Indian wars, wagon trains and cattle drives. He would return to the West for three months annually for many years. In 1890 Remington moved to New Rochelle, New York in order to have both living space and extensive studio facilities, although he later moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut. In 1898 he served as a war correspondent and illustrator for the Spanish-American War, sent to provide illustrations for William Randolph Hearst. Although he soon became bored with his task, he was present to witness the assault on San Juan Hill by American forces, including those lead by Theodore Roosevelt. Frederic Remington's life was cut short after an emergency appendectomy led to peritonitis. However, his contribution to American painting and to the illustration of the American wilderness is immeasurable.

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