Frederic Remington Book

James K. Ballinger, director of the Phoenix Art Museum, explores many critical facets of Remington's art as well as the artist's personal struggle to achieve recognition as a fine artist. Ballinger traces Remington's life from his earliest travels in the West through his successful career as a magazine illustrator to his profoundly disturbing realization that the West he knew was passing rapidly into legend at the same time that American aesthetic tastes were turning toward newer styles and different subjects. In the face of these disturbing facts, Remington was able to forge an even more highly crafted art, and the paintings and bronzes he made late in his career are among his best work. Ballinger carefully examines the key works in Remington's oevre in order to discover Remington's own artistic aims and to evaluate the means he chose to achieve them.

More than one hundred reproductions - fifty-eight in full color - bring to life this quintessentially American artist and the dramatic and colorful imagery that has become part of America's epic story.

111 illustrations, 58 in full color, 160 pages, 8-7/8 x 12"