The moonlit views the artist saw from his skiff as he paddled near his retreat, Inglenook Island, inspired Frederic Remington’s first nighttime...
Nocturnes Hit Million-Dollar Marks
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The Bronco Busters
“I never got to be a bronk rider but in my youthfull days wanted to be, and while that want lasted I had a fine chance to study hoss enatimy from...
Hauser’s Story Finds its Heartbeat
Cincinnati artist John Hauser left behind few letters and no diaries, making biographical details of his life and work sketchy at best. Yet an...
Celebration of Non-Indian, Indian Art
“In his Kachina Painter, Mr. Couse represents a modern Indian painting on a wall one of the sacred symbols of his ancestors. “There is a hint of...
“He’s No Parlor Car Artist”
“Remington, Russell and Leigh were once as familiar to the art world as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to musicians, or Tinker, Evers and Chance to...
“He’s No Parlor Car Artist”
“Remington, Russell and Leigh were once as familiar to the art world as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to musicians, or Tinker, Evers and Chance to...
Crossed Sabres
The two crossed sabres insignia, cutting edge up, marked the hats of two different cavalrymen from the beginning and the end of the Indian Wars. The...
Glacier’s Great Artists
“Railway stations and hotels served in a real sense as the first “art galleries” in the West, at a time before traditional art institutions were...
Custer Portrait Shares a Hidden Story
“Our house at Fort Lincoln, Dakota” is a notation that many may not pay much attention to, other than as an identification of a depicted location....
Valuable Vaqueros
On June 19, 1867, the day after Joseph McCoy purchased 250 acres of land in what would become the cowtown of Abilene, Kansas, the last emperor of...
Sons of the Pioneers Spice Up Music Auction
Leonard Franklin Slye likely never would have become the actor we know as Roy Rogers had he not first found fame in a cowboy band he formed with Tim...
How to Own a Dixon on a Low Budget
Given that Maynard Dixon commands as high a price at auction as $1.5 million, some of you might think a drawing by him would also be out of your...