Subject: 'mountain man' fur trapper
Culture: frontier American
Setting: fur trade, western America early-mid 19thc
National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum *
"Mountain Man"
* Sid Richardson Museum
"The Unknown Explorers Frederic Remington 1861-1909 Oil on canvas 1908 ...
The Unknown Explorers celebrates the mountain men who roamed the frontier and established many of the routes that would later take settlers across the continent to the West Coast. In reality, these explorers were fur trappers who traversed the western territories from around 1810 to 1880 and were long gone by the time Remington arrived on the scene. This painting is the second version of a work Remington made that was featured on the cover of the August 11, 1906 Collier's Weekly Magazine. The first painting was destroyed by Remington in 1908 as the artist strove to shift the critics' perception of his work from illustration to fine art. Here, an exact narrative is unknown. Where does this party come from? What do they seek? The abstract background of brilliant light and diagonal shadows is a perfect foil to this character study of Western types."
BNSF Railway Corporate *
"'Clark and Indian'
Joseph G. Chenoweth"
* BNSF Railway Corporate
"'Lewis and Clark'
Joseph G. Chenoweth"
