Description

Done in the Open is a book featuring the artwork of Frederic Remington, a renowned American artist and sculptor. The book showcases his iconic depictions of the American West, including cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes. Remington's unique style and attention to detail capture the ruggedness and beauty of the frontier, bringing to life a bygone era. The book includes over 100 illustrations, accompanied by essays and commentary from art historians and experts. Done in the Open is a must-have for anyone interested in American art and the history of the West.1898. Drawings by Remington, the renowned Western artist, with notes and verses by Owen Wister and others. Wister writes in the Introduction: No artist until Remington has undertaken to draw so clearly the history of the people...He has pictured the red man as no one else...He has told his tragedy completely...Remington has recorded the white man who encountered him-recorded this man also in every stage from dignity to sordid squalor. Pioneers, trappers, cowboys, miners, prospectors, gamblers, bandits-the whole motley rout goes ineffaceably into Remington��s pages. And, finally, he has not forgotten nature herself. The mystery of the untouched plains and the awe of the unscaled mountain heights have been set down by him not only truthfully, but with potent feeling and imagination.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.