FREDERIC REMINGTON’S ‘TREASURES’ AT FENIMORE ART MUSEUM

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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — “Treasures from the Frederic Remington Art Museum” will be on view from May 26 to September 4 at the Fenimore Art Museum in its Scriven Gallery.

“Treasures from the Frederic Remington Art Museum” includes 22 original paintings and drawings and four original Remington sculptures from the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, N.Y.

The works represent the breadth of the artist’s work as well as an overview of the museum’s holdings. In Remington’s 48 years, he produced more than 3,000 signed paintings and drawings, 22 subjects in bronze, and articles and novels that comprised eight books. He made his name as an artist and illustrator of Western subjects, and viewers are often surprised to learn that he was a New Yorker — he was born and buried in Canton, N.Y., and produced most of his work in his studio in New Rochelle.

Among the highlights of the exhibition is an 1885 watercolor, “Sunday Morning Toilet on the Ranch.” This work is a recent bequest by Charles R. Wood and a fine example of Remington’s early devotion to the theme of cowboy ritual and camaraderie. Magazine and book illustrations made Remington’s name a household word by the end of the Nineteenth Century.

The exhibition features examples of Remington’s illustrations, including the 1888 oil on board, “One of the Boys,” one of many works he produced for an important early commission to illustrate six stories of Theodore Roosevelt’s Western exploits in The Century.

The Fenimore Art Museum is at 5798 State Highway 80, Lake Road. For information, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org or 1-888-547-1450.