F. Remington - more cavalry charges

 Salvete Omnes,

April is ending, the Pope had died and was buried past Saturday, and now they are going to elect a new Pope in a conclave of cardinals.

today, starting around 12PM European time there has been blackout in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and some in the southern France and Italy. We lived through the 2003 August Blackout in NYC, it was not a very traumatic experience as it did not last long (one night, some 26 hours in total) and criminal activity was limited and contained. I hope they restore electricity in Spain etc quickly. 

India and Pakistan are on a verge or a real armed conflict, after a terror attack in the disputed Kashmir (those pesky British politicians who created this witches' cauldron of conflict and mayhem), this could be very serious.

ad rem,
a little more equestrian art by Frederic Remington -  I already posted some great cavalry charges by our American master Frederic Remington - here.

Now, I would like to share the work from Blanton Museum of Art in Texas  painted circa 1906

the Charge

and this famous work

Cavalry Charge on the Southern Plains

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Washita River battle 

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Enjoy

Valete

F. Remington - nightly scenes in his paintings

 Salvete Omnes,

Frederic Remington, great American realist painter and illustrator & writer, painted many nightly scenes in hie lifetime.

I would like to share with you some of these nightly and indoor scenes and the ones with dimmed light, where the artists explores possibilities offered by limited palette etc

 

I wonder if he was influenced by the paintings of Jozef Brandt, whose are was imported into the American art market in the late 1800s. Remington himself made trips within continental Europe,

 visiting the Russian Empire in 1891-2 and Germany too. also in French North Africa etc. 

enjoy

Valete

LibriVox - Parkman's Oregon Trail

 Salvete Omnes,

a great book to listen (and /or read - eg this 1918 edited version): ''The Oregon Trail'' by the American historian Francis Parkman.

I have  been listening to this production on Librivox.

perhaps in the future I will share some horse-related stories and information form this fantastic travel literature work.

some of the illustrations created by Frederic Remington for one of the  more lavish editions.

Valete

April Fool's Day - or Custer on his 1st bison hunt

 Salvete Omnes,

April has come and we should rejoice the return of warm seasons, but for the fact that the world is in turmoil and full of mayhem- eg the Central Kitchen food aid workers massacre in  Gaza. Let us pray for peace to return everywhere.

April Fool's Day was yesterday - and in the spirit of that day I would like to bring to your attention and curiosity a little funnier and tragic event from rather more heroic life of G. A. Custer.

In 1867 American Army brevet general and actual  colonel G.A. Custer, cavalryman and hero of the Civil War, started his  Great Plains military service against the Plains Indian people, that would eventually lead to his death in battle in 1876.
This event - a buffalo hunting - took place during general Hancock's Southern Plains campaign in Kansas and Colorado in the Spring of  1867. 
Custer, pursing fleeing Indians,  decided to seek some bison or buffalo, as he had not hunted them yet, using his trusted army revolvers and his to hound dogs. 

So here is his tale of his 1st hunt, in his own words (My Life on the Plains):

so, our hero lost his valued and trusted thoroughbred steed, survived unscathed and his hounds too,while he was exceedingly lucky that there were no Cheyenne nor Lakotas of Pawnee Killer to finish him off. He finished his Spring-Summer marching in July 1867
Nota bene Custer wrote about his hunting mishap in his letters to a hunting magazine titled :'Turf, Field and Farm' (1867) - you can borrow the edited letters - Nomad, George A. Custer in Turf, Field and Farm - from Archive world Library. (this letter  was written and sent on Sept. 9, 1867, being published in the magazine on Sept 21, 1867)
Valete

F. Reminton- cavalry charges & American horses

 Salvete Omnes,

 

a quick gallop across the Great Plains of American Painting -
I have several albums about Frederic Remington's art. And with the development of archive library catalogs you can find many books by or with Frederic Remington's illustrations.
Here you can find various books and albums - either to download or to borrow.
I would like to bring to your attention the beauty of Frederic Remington's portrayal of cavalry charges :

US Cavalry

and Plains Indian warriors

Howgh!

Please note, that maestro Remington drew and painted horse from life (also used photographs etc), the American horses of his day and age. They are not overfed and rather athletic looking,  prime examples of the horse nation of those gone days.

Valete