West R Lee
Venerated Member
A young lady from Malayisa that Mrs. West and I took under our wings was married in Fort Worth yesterday, so my wife and I decided to stay the night in FW and take in some sights. Now I'm sure this stuff is very old news to someone like our Guilded who lives there (Harry, Fort Worth is an incredible town), but for guys like me that love western heritage, this is the Holy Grail (almost).
I'm a huge Frederic Remington fan and have wanted to see these items housed at the Amon Carter Museum for years, just always had other thing to do. Today, we made the time. I got goose bumps standing next to this stuff. The first shot was taken downtown and I love it, the rest at Amon Carter.
This is the origional of the very first painting Remington was ever comissioned to do. Amon Carter paid $5000 for this one back in the 1930's. "His First Lesson".
This is "Dash for the Timber", (1890) and another Carter owned origional. It is the largest Remington and maybe the most awesome painting I've ever seen. The colors and detail in this one are exquisite. The horses eyes actually follow you around the room. Just incredible.
And my personal favorites are the bronzes. There are no origionals as the were sculpted in clay by Remington, then molds were made of those sculptures. This is "Bronco Buster" from the origional cast. Origionally, the molds were to be destroyed when Remington died, but then changed to be destroyed when his wife died. They were her retirement plan as when she needed money, she would call the foundry and tell them to pour a few more. True to human nature, when Remington's wife died, several copies of the molds were made.
I've got a couple that have been cast from copies, cheap imitations, but still not inexpensive. They had one painting in there that the origional owner was ridiculed for having spent $700 on in 1901. The Amon Carter Museum was given preferential treatment in allowing them to purchase that painting for the bargian price of $10,000,000. :shock: In the early 1900's many of these were bought by Carter as some art museums didn't consider western "real art". Their loss is our gain. Amon Carter insisted there would be no admission to his museum and that policy still stands. Free to the public.
Just fascinating stuff.
West
I'm a huge Frederic Remington fan and have wanted to see these items housed at the Amon Carter Museum for years, just always had other thing to do. Today, we made the time. I got goose bumps standing next to this stuff. The first shot was taken downtown and I love it, the rest at Amon Carter.
This is the origional of the very first painting Remington was ever comissioned to do. Amon Carter paid $5000 for this one back in the 1930's. "His First Lesson".
This is "Dash for the Timber", (1890) and another Carter owned origional. It is the largest Remington and maybe the most awesome painting I've ever seen. The colors and detail in this one are exquisite. The horses eyes actually follow you around the room. Just incredible.
And my personal favorites are the bronzes. There are no origionals as the were sculpted in clay by Remington, then molds were made of those sculptures. This is "Bronco Buster" from the origional cast. Origionally, the molds were to be destroyed when Remington died, but then changed to be destroyed when his wife died. They were her retirement plan as when she needed money, she would call the foundry and tell them to pour a few more. True to human nature, when Remington's wife died, several copies of the molds were made.
I've got a couple that have been cast from copies, cheap imitations, but still not inexpensive. They had one painting in there that the origional owner was ridiculed for having spent $700 on in 1901. The Amon Carter Museum was given preferential treatment in allowing them to purchase that painting for the bargian price of $10,000,000. :shock: In the early 1900's many of these were bought by Carter as some art museums didn't consider western "real art". Their loss is our gain. Amon Carter insisted there would be no admission to his museum and that policy still stands. Free to the public.
Just fascinating stuff.
West
