THE SENTINEL BY FREDERIC REMINGTON
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Frederic Remington The Sentinel 1889 Oil on canvas 34 inches x 49 inches |
| Painted in 1889, The Sentinel was inspired by an earlier trip to the Southwest that took Remington through Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and into Mexico. In the deserts of southern Arizona, Remington sketched the Papagos, a peaceful people long under the sway of the Spaniards and Mexicans. They had no enemies apart from the Apaches, who were a constant menace, and, outside the mission San Xavier del Bac, a mounted Papago kept vigil. Remington had published a sheet of twelve drawings, Sketches among the Papagos of San Xavier, in Harper's Weekly, April 2, 1887. In this striking oil, he combined three of them--a Papago home, the mission proper, and the guard on lookout for Apaches. |