A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

Frederic Remington American
 Relates to a story by Theodore Ayrault Dodge American

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Remington delighted in depicting horses, whether in action adventures or displays of showmanship. A skilled equestrian, he was well suited to illustrating the four-part article "Some American Riders" by military officer and historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge for Harper's Monthly. Remington carefully distinguished the regional characteristics of riders and their horses, including the Southern type. In December 1890, Remington described the gentlemanly fox hunter surrounded by his hounds as "smoking a cigar, costumed in his sack coat, white breeches, felt hat, and top-boots, mounted on a sorrel horse." A staff artist for Harper's painstakingly transferred his vision onto a woodblock, using a burin to produce a detailed linear image that reverses the original drawing.

A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891, Frederic Remington (American, Canton, New York 1861–1909 Ridgefield, Connecticut), Woodblock

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A Southern Rider, from
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