The moonlit views the artist saw from his skiff as he paddled near his retreat, Inglenook Island, inspired Frederic Remington’s first nighttime paintings. Both of these paintings—The Wolves Sniffed Along the Trail but Came No Nearer and Pretty Mother of the Night—hit over the million-dollar mark at the Scottsdale Art Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, on April 2, 2011. This gritty perspective of the West’s Indians was unlike any Remington had portrayed in his art before. After all, h
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