BUFFALO RUNNERS - BIG HORN BASIN BY FREDERIC REMINGTON
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Frederic Remington Buffalo Runners - Big Horn basin 1909 Oil on canvas 30 1/8 inches x 51 1/8 inches |
| Remington (and his critics) had always doubted his color sense. After 1900 he discovered the joys of applying paint freely, stroking more boldly and allowing his own sense of light and shadow to dictate his palette. Buffalo Runners, Big Horn Basin is a riot of sunstruck hues--yellow ochres, warm browns, rusts and reds--sweeping across the canvas with an abandon to match that of the racing riders. Painted in the last year of Remington's life, it is a throwback to his earliest Western experiences and the emotions they generated. "I have always wanted to be able to paint running horses so you would feel the details and not see them," he confided to his diary in 1908. Buffalo Runners, Big Horn Basin is a high point in Remington's hard-earned transformation into an American Impressionist painter. |