"Geronimo & His Band Returning from a Raid in Mexico" by Frederic Remington (Print)


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Page from Harper's Weekly, 1886

From A Brief Guide to the Works of Art on Display in the Mark Twain House  by Steve Courtney, September 2020:
Frederic Remington: “Geronimo and His Band Returning from a Raid in Mexico” (1888), engraving

Remington (1861-1909) took up illustration in the 1880s, and won assignments from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine creating drawings that were turned into engraved illustrations such as this one from the magazine. A passionate interest in what was already being called “the Old West” turned him into the nation’s premier painter and illustrator of Western subjects. Clemens had spent nearly a decade in the West during the 1860s, and immortalized his life there in his book Roughing It. He remained entranced by images of life and adventure there, which Remington conveyed skillfully.

 
The Mark Twain House & Museum, Museum purchase, 2004.
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