Lot of Vintage Frederic Remington's 'BUCKSKINS' 1956 NR

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You are bidding on: Lot of Vintage Frederic Remington's 'BUCKSKINS' 1956 All Prints are Signed This set of eight 1956 prints all were in this display pamphlet named All the prints are in good condition, t are some tape gum marks on the prints w I think they were displayed. Frederic Remington's 'BUCKSKINS' Portraits Of The Old West... The Original Folio of Eight Color Prints Superbly Reproduced On the of each print it states as follows: The of the print FREDERIC REMINGTON (American, 1861-1909): Courtesty The Remington Art Memorial 1956 Penn Prints, New York The 8 prints are as follows: 1. P2556 An Army Packer 2. P2557 No Title 3. P2558 No Title 4. P2559 A Cavalery Officer 5. P2560 A Arizona Cowboy 6. Can not see # framed A Cheyenne Buck 7. Framed no title or # 8. Framed no title or # The frames measure Aprox. 17" X 21" All prints measure 16 3/8" X 12 1/4" Below is a little history of: Frederic Remington Prints Printing and Publishing In every case, Remington prints are reproductions. The word "print" or "original print" generally refers to paper that has had a design imprinted on it by some inked medium, such as stone, wood or metal. The design is created by hand by the artist on the medium. The medium is then inked and transferred onto paper by running paper and the inked medium together through a press. Surprisingly, the true definition of the word "print" does not apply Collier's and the other publishers did not sell "prints." They sold reproductions of the original. If they were indeed original prints, the design would have been created on the printing medium (a wood block or metal plate) by Remington. Frederic Remington was not a printmaker. Instead, Remington's original was reproduced by staff at the publisher. Illustrations and prints became an important part of Remington's fame and popularity with the American public. Throughout the 1890s, Remington was well known in American households as an illustrator of the Old West and military subjects. His interest on the details of his human and equine subjects conveyed authenticity, though he worked in his studios in the East. Aside from his year outside of Peabody, Kansas, he spent only about three years total on western trips. Remington collected thousands of photographs, both commercial photos and ones he took himself, as visual notes. He filled his New Rochelle, NY studio with Indian, cowboy and military artifacts in great numbers. He filled sketchbooks wver he went. Remington was a very hard worker Â- he spent part of every day in his studio. His drafting skills were modest when he started illustrating, but his combined talent and determination brought fluid proficiency and then greatness. Beyond his reliance on props, notes and photographs, Remington was also blessed with a keen visual memory. He had a knack for creating compositions that worked artistically and contributed to the viewers' feeling that they are 'really t', when in fact, Remington created each scene wholecloth. A Small Glossary: Wood engraving : a. A block of wood on whose surface a design for printing is engraved across the end grain. b. A print made from a wood engraving. Remington's illustrations were reproduced this way in books and magazines through the 1880s. Half tone : A picture in which the gradations of light are obtained by the relative darkness and density of tiny dots produced by photographing the subject through a fine screen. Photogravure : Any of various processes, based on photography, by which an engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made. Graver, or Burin - A tool used in engraving metal, wood, or stone. A knob-like wooden handle which holds a metal shaft having a sharp beveled point with one size of several possible shapes, either flat, round, multiple, or elliptical. It is ge... read more

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