EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 27 © 2019 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

42 he saw during the jungle fighting, and the deprivation in the military camps. While he had previously glorified the efforts of soldiers, now he came back with a different feeling, his paintings reflecting the horror of war instead. After the war, Roosevelt was presented with a Remington ‘Bronco Buster’ bronze sculpture by his troops. Remington said it was, “The greatest compliment I ever had… After this, everything will be mere fuss.” Roosevelt responded: “There could have been no more appropriate gift from such a regiment.” In 1900, owing to economic reasons, Harper’s Weekly dropped their star illustrator. Remington compensated his loss of work by writing and illustrating a western novel, ‘The Way of an Indian’, which was meant to be serialized by Hearst, but didn’t see print until five years later in Cosmopolitan instead. The book was written from the Indian’s point of view, a radical change for Remington who had previously viewed them as inferior to the white people. Although the book to tries accurately to portray the Indians and their customs, its old-fashioned, clunky writing makes it a rather tiresome and unexciting read. At the turn of the century Remington returned Text continued from page 38 FACING PAGE: The Buffalo Horse, bronze sculpture, 1907, showing an historical and dynamic rendering of the ritual of “buffalo running” by the Plains Indians. This grouping of figures is balanced on the rear legs of the buffalo, with support from the lance at the front. Remington studied the buffalo at the Bronx Zoo and worked for several weeks using his notes to help create this sculpture. It was completed in about 6 weeks, and later made into a painting (see first page of feature). ABOVE: Fired On , oil on canvas, 1907. Another of Remington’s nocturnal paintings. Remington saw night on the plains in a dark green hue. FOLLOWING PAGE: Moonlight Wolf , oil on canvas, ca. 1909. to sculpture and by 1901 Collier’s began to buy his illustrations on a steady basis. Remington also began working on what he called his “nocturnal paintings”, evoking a scene taking place at night, something that could relate all the way back to Rembrandt and his ‘Night Watch’, although it was a term that was originally coined by James Whistler who called them “Nocturne (paintings)”. In 1902 he completed another novel,