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The Color of Night by Nancy K. Anderson.
This is without a doubt one of the most unique books with
hundreds of color photos of Remingtons paintings, many of
them are of night scenes. No other artist from Remington's
time has been able to capture the night and darkness from
dusk till dawn. This is a must have for every book collection.
This book is inspired by the expedition that is traveling
the country titled "The Color of Night". This
is the largest collection of Remington art brought together
at one time with pieces on loan from Gilcrease, Frederic
Remington Art Museum and many other museums. This traveling
show is going from the east to the west with hundreds of
millions of dollars worth of art. Hard Bound Cloth
Cover, 228 Pages. Large Coffee Table book
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In the decade preceding his untimely death, Frederic
Remington (1861-1909) produced a series of paintings that
took as their subject the color of night. This richly illustrated
volume is the first to present all of these works--some seventy
paintings that secured for Remington the critical acclaim
he so coveted. Indeed, these magnificent nocturnes marked
an important new direction for the celebrated illustrator,
writer, and sculptor of America's vanishing frontier.
In these deeply personal works, Remington explored the technical
and aesthetic difficulties of painting darkness. Surprisingly,
his images are filled with color and light--moonlight, firelight,
candlelight. Focused on the subject the artist had made his
own--the American West--these paintings reflect Remington's
dramatic reworking of the narrative tradition as well as the
spare modernism of his late work.
"Frederic Remington: The Color of Night," accompanying
the first exhibition devoted to the nocturnes, includes
three insightful essays discussing Remington's nocturnes
within the literary, historical, aesthetic, and technological
context of his time. The nocturnes do much more than document
a night that was rapidly disappearing under bright, newly
installed electric lights. They also reveal how this son
of a Civil War hero moved from burnishing Theodore Roosevelt's
rough riding heroics in Cuba to exploring, like Stephen
Crane and Ernest Hemingway, his own soul-searing war experience,
and, like Joseph Conrad, to probing America's own heart
of darkness.
As the definitive resource on Remington's nocturnes, this
volume pairs large reproductions of these stunning paintings--including
newly conserved works and others notseen publicly since
the artist's death--with commentary from his personal diaries
and letters and from contemporary critics.
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