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Article: Remington and Indian and Western Images
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REMINGTON AND INDIAN AND WESTERN IMAGES
REMINGTON AND INDIAN AND WESTERN IMAGES.
Artists such as Frederic Remington (1861
–
1909) provided filmmakers with the lexicon for making Westerns. This lexicon has been used throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In his short career of only about twenty-five years, Remington produced a huge body of illustration, painting, sculpture, fiction, and nonfiction
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most of which centered on imagining the nineteenth-century American West. For most of his life, Remington worked as a painter, producing close to three thousand paintings. Perhaps his most famous painting is
A Dash for the Timber
(1889). The painting depicts a ...