Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Open Range
A Reconnaissance
Frederic Remington, 1902 · oil on canvas
What it is
A rider and his horses stand on a moonlit snow slope while two more men watch from the trees above, in Frederic Remington’s oil on canvas of 1902.
Why it matters
Remington painted the American West of the last quarter of the nineteenth century: cowboys, Native Americans and the cavalry.
What to notice
The whole picture is green and blue, and the horses’ shadows fall long across the snow.
Waiting for the other side to move.
Provenance
- Maker
- Frederic Remington, 1902
- Era
- The Edwardian Turf (1901–1914)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1902
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · via Wikimedia Commons · 2019.438
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: Cc-zero. The maker died in 1909.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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