On the Southern Plains
Artist: Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)
Original Dimensions: 30 1/8" x 51 1/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1907) "One of Remington’s favorite themes was the American soldier in the West, of whom he wrote, "His heroism is called duty, and it probably is." Here, soldiers led by a scout in buckskin thunder across the frontier toward an unseen adversary. Although Remington titled the painting "Cavalry in Sixties" in his diary, the uniforms and weapons date variously from the Civil War into the 1870s. The artist departed from reality in other details as well—for example, positioning the cavalry as a vibrant mass rather than in a straight horizontal line, which was the usual attack formation." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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