,,the ,,mentor #aiae4jf4ae1 ,no4 #he1 ,painters of ,western ,life ,,learn ,,one ,,thing ,,every ,,day ,,june #ae #aiae ,,serial ,,no4 #he ,,the ,,mentor ,,painters ,,of ,,western ,,life ,by ,,arthur ,,hoeber ,author and ,artist ,,department ,,of ,,volume #c ,,fine ,,arts ,,number #i ,,twenty ,,cents ,a ,,copy ,play the ,game ,illustration 8,suppose10 said ,thomas ,huxley1 8it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would1 one day or other1 depend upon his winning or losing a game of chess4 ,don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces8 ,do you not think that we should look with a disapprobation amounting to scorn upon the father who allowed his son1 or the ,state which allowed its members1 to grow up without knowing a pawn from a knight80 99 99 99 99 99 8,yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life1 the fortune1 and the happiness of every one of us1 and more or less of those who are connected with us1 do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess4 ,it is a game which has been played for untold ages1 every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own4 ,the chessboard is the world1 the pieces are the phenomena of the universe1 the rules of the game are what we call the laws of ,nature40 99 99 99 99 99 8,the player on the other side is hidden from us4 ,we know that his play is always fair1 just1 and patient4 ,but also we know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance4 ,to the man who plays well the highest stakes are paid1 with that sort of overflowing generosity which with the strong shows delight in strength4 ,and one who plays ill is checkmated--without haste1 but without remorse40 ,illustration3 ,,courtesy ,,knoedler ,,co4 ,,the ,,last ,,stand4 ,,by ,,frederic ,,remington 8,,the ,,last ,,stand10 by ,frederic ,remington1 a strong and stirring picture of a dramatic incident in army life1 is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating 8,painters of ,western ,life40 ,,frederic ,,remington ,monograph ,number ,one in ,the ,mentor ,reading ,course ,remington's life was as full of vigor and action as his pictures4 ,outdoor life and athletic sports were always a hobby of his4 ,when he was at ,yale he was on ,walter ,camp's original football team1 when ,camp was practically inventing the ,american game1 and ,remington assisted him4 ,frederic ,remington was born at ,canton1 a little village in ,st4 ,lawrence ,county1 ,new ,york ,state1 in #ahfa4 ,his father1 a newspaper man1 wanted to train him to follow the same profession2 but ,remington's taste for dabbing at art was too strong4 ,in the ,yale ,art ,school he picked up a little about art and a great deal about football4 ,he could not accommodate himself to college routine2 so he tried life for awhile as confidential clerk for ,governor ,cornell at ,albany4 ,this job was too quiet for him2 so he threw it up and went out to ,montana to 8punch cows40 ,remington became a downright1 genuine cowboy1 and his four years in the saddle brought him the accurate1 minute knowledge of horses1 ,indians1 cattle1 and life on the plains that marks his work4 ,after roughing it as a cowboy1 ,remington went to ,kansas and started a mule ranch1 made some money at it1 then wandered south1 taking a turn as ranchman1 scout1 guide1 and in fact anything that offered4 ,when his money was gone his mind turned back to art4 ,as he said1 8,now that ,i was poor ,i could gratify my inclination for an artist's career4 ,in art1 to be conventional1 one must start out penniless40 ,so he made some drawings which the ,harpers accepted4 ,the material was fresh and full of spirit2 so ,remington got an order to go west and get up illustrations for a series of articles on the life of the plains4 ,he was lucky enough to strike in on an ,indian campaign4 ,his success as an illustrator was so great that he never after lacked for commissions4 ,he even went as far as ,russia in #ahib4 ,gradually people came to know that a new and vigorous personality had taken his stand in the field of art1 and that his name was ,frederic ,remington4 ,his sketches and paintings of soldiers1 ,indians1 cowboys1 and trappers were full of character1 and came to be known far and wide both as illustrations and as independent works of art4 ,remington brought all his subjects fresh from life straight to his canvas4 ,he lived an active outdoor life1 worked hard1 and was ever seeking for new material4 ,it was his dream to go to a real war1 and in #ahih he got his chance4 ,the well known playwright1 ,augustus ,thomas1 for years a neighbor of ,remington's1 states that he called the artist up early one morning in ,february1 #ahih1 and told him that the ,maine had been blown up and sunk4 ,the only thanks or comment he got was a shout from ,remington1 8,ring off60 ,as ,thomas rang off he could hear ,remington call the private telephone number of his publishers in ,new ,york4 ,at that very minute the artist was in his mind already entered for war service4 ,the latter years of ,remington's life were spent in various trips and in periods of quiet work in his home studio at ,new ,rochelle1 ,new ,york4 ,there anyone could find him--big1 simple and good-natured1 modest and plain-spoken1 working out his vigorous compositions in a large roomy studio most appropriately constructed and decorated for his purpose4 ,his collection of relics of all sorts and from all quarters of the world was unique4 ,aside from his painting and modeling1 ,remington was justly celebrated for his writing4 ,his descriptive powers were vivid and telling1 and his stories1 which fill several volumes1 are full of living interest4 ,remington died very suddenly of pneumonia on ,december #bf1 #aiji4 ,his place in ,american art is unique4 ,there is no one quite like him4 ,he knew his power1 and he exercised it with ease and confidence4 ,his work was his life1 and his life was with strong1 primitive types of men and with animals1 all of whom he loved4 ,the epitaph he wanted for himself was1 8,he knew the ,horse40 ,,prepared ,,by ,,the ,,editorial ,,staff ,,of ,,the ,,mentor ,,association ,,illustration ,,for ,,the ,,mentor4 ,,vol4 #c4 ,no4 #i4 ,,serial ,no4 #he ,,copyright1 #aiae1 ,,by ,,the ,,mentor ,,association1 ,,inc4 ,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,possession ,,of ,,the ,,artist ,,wild ,,horse ,,hunters4 ,,by ,,charles ,m4 ,,russell 8,,wild ,,horse ,,hunters10 by ,charles ,m4 ,russell1 a spirited picture of an episode in the rough life of the plains1 is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating 8,painters of ,western ,life40 ,,charles ,m4 ,,russell ,monograph ,number ,two in ,the ,mentor ,reading ,course ,mr4 ,russell belongs to no established school of art4 ,his work is distinctly his own1 and he is known as the 8cowboy artist40 ,this does not mean1 however1 that there is anything careless or hasty about his art4 ,he works with great care4 ,his hand is trained to note every detail of his subject1 and he has a memory that never lets go4 ,several years ago ,russell had an exhibit in a gallery in ,new ,york ,city which he called 8,pictures of the ,west ,that ,has ,passed40 ,there was fine audacity in this4 ,the man who had never taken a lesson in an art school and had had very little opportunity to see fine art work1 who had no critic more severe than himself1 took one of the big galleries in ,new ,york ,city for a 8one-man exhibit40 ,russell had the courage of his convictions1 and his convictions were soon shared by art lovers2 for he took his place at once among the best painters of the ,west4 ,charles ,russell was born in ,st4 ,louis in #ahfe1 and1 like ,remington1 had a deep-seated objection to the rules and routine of schools4 ,the most interesting thing in the school curriculum to ,russell was 8vacation10 and it was his habit to add to his vacation privileges whenever he could by playing hooky4 ,when he was fifteen he was permitted to leave school and go out to the great wild ,west1 the land of his heart's desire1 and there he began his real education4 ,he was no delinquent in that greater school1 nor was he ever truant2 for when ,nature became his teacher and all outdoors his textbook he showed himself a keen and interested student4 ,he went to ,montana when life on the range was in its glory1 and the ,indians were part of everyday existence4 ,for eleven years he rode the range by choice1 doing night work that he might have daylight for painting and modeling4 ,he was ever possessed by a passion to reproduce in color or in clay the rapidly shifting scenes about him1 and so1 day after day and year after year1 he was laying a splendid foundation for the great work that was before him4 ,he lived among the ,indians and came to know their inner life1 their hopes and aspirations4 ,he learned their sign language and customs1 and so is able to depict ,indians as if he were one of them4 ,his great success has come not as a gift of the gods1 but as a well earned reward after years of hard and diligent work and close application4 ,for several years he was known in the ,east just for book and magazine illustrations1 usually in black and white4 ,then he went to ,new ,york and made himself known as a painter4 ,mr4 ,russell spends little time in the ,east4 ,naturally he was gratified that his work won for him an immediate and distinguished place2 but he was not of the mood nor had he the time to stand in the limelight4 ,the great ,west was ever beckoning him back1 and every summer would find him at some ,indian reservation or roaming in the wild regions seeking passionately for the subjects that he loved to paint on canvas or model in clay4 ,other things interested him little4 ,russell the man is the same as ,russell the schoolboy1--indifferent to books or academic matters1 but eager for the things that have a living interest for him4 ,the bargain that he used to propose to his schoolmates sounded the keynote of his life1 8,you get my lessons for me1 and ,i will make you two ,indians40 ,,prepared ,,by ,,the ,,editorial ,,staff ,,of ,,the ,,mentor ,,association ,,illustration ,,for ,,the ,,mentor4 ,,vol4 #c4 ,no4 #i4 ,,serial ,no4 #he ,,copyright1 #aiae1 ,,by ,,the ,,mentor ,,association1 ,,inc4 ,illustration3 ,,copyright1 #aija1 ,,by ,,charles ,,schreyvogel ,,my ,,bunkie4 ,,by ,,charles ,,schreyvogel 8,,my ,,bunkie10 by ,charles ,schreyvogel1 a picture that made a great sensation and brought the artist sudden fame1 is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating 8,painters of ,western ,life40 ,,charles ,,schreyvogel ,monograph ,number ,three in ,the ,mentor ,reading ,course 8,famous overnight40 ,in those words ,charles ,schreyvogel was hailed in #aijj4 ,the sound of the words was good and cheery2 but ,charles ,schreyvogel knew well enough that his fame had been much longer than 8overnight0 in coming4 ,it was only after many vicissitudes and disheartening struggles that he came into the recognition of his colleagues and the general public4 ,when he did win out1 however1 his victory was so complete and so enduring that he will remain always one of the most distinguished painters of ,american frontier life4 ,charles ,schreyvogel was a ,new ,york ,city boy1 born in #ahfa1 and was educated in the public schools4 ,he began life apprenticed to a gold-beater1 and later on was apprenticed in turn to a die-sinker and lithographer4 ,his pronounced artistic talents could not be denied1 and his private studies finally led up to an opportunity to go to ,munich1 where at the age of twenty-five he studied for three years under ,frank ,kirschbach and ,carl ,marr4 ,on his return to ,america he went west1 and there lived for awhile the life of the plains1 the mountains1 the ,indian agencies1 and the army barracks4 ,he was fascinated with the wild life of the frontier1 and devoted himself eagerly to the study of horses1 ,indians1 and troopers in full action4 ,then began the story of 8,my ,bunkie40 ,while engaged in painting ,schreyvogel was in the habit of making sketches for lithographers as a matter of bread winning4 ,being sadly in need of funds1 he offered one of his paintings to a lithographer who needed a subject for a calendar4 ,the painting was 8,my ,bunkie10 and ,schreyvogel set great store by it4 ,the lithographer rejected it because it would not cut down well to the dimensions of his calendar4 ,then the artist tried it out in one place and another1 and failing to get it published1 he sought permission to hang it in an ,east ,side restaurant in ,new ,york1 in the hope that someone might become interested in it and buy it for at least a moderate sum4 ,to his utter discouragement he found a short time after that his picture was not even hung in the restaurant4 ,he was about to take it home and lay it away when a friend induced him to send it to the exhibition of the ,national ,academy of ,design which was then approaching4 ,he did this very reluctantly2 for he had no hope in it4 ,on the day after the exhibition ,schreyvogel rubbed his eyes and read what seemed to him a fairy tale4 ,his picture 8,my ,bunkie0 had not only been accepted1 but was hung in the place of honor and received the ,thomas ,b4 ,clarke prize1 the most important one that the ,national ,academy has to bestow4 ,and so ,schreyvogel became 8famous overnight40 ,schreyvogel made his home at ,hoboken1 ,new ,jersey1 and during the years from #aijj until his death he painted and published many vigorous pictures of ,indian and army life on the frontier1 all of them fine in action and full of sentiment4 ,he made an arrangement with a photographer near his home by which his paintings were issued in fine platinum prints4 ,in this form1 as displayed in art-store windows1 they have become familiar to the public all over the world4 ,schreyvogel died at his home in ,hoboken on ,january #bg1 #aiab1 and in the spring exhibition of that year the ,national ,academy of ,design1 ,new ,york1 hung once again his celebrated painting of 8,my ,bunkie0 in a place of honor as an affectionate memorial to the artist4 ,,prepared ,,by ,,the ,,editorial ,,staff ,,of ,,the ,,mentor ,,association ,,illustration ,,for ,,the ,,mentor4 ,,vol4 #c4 ,no4 #i4 ,,serial ,no4 #he ,,copyright1 #aiae1 ,,by ,,the ,,mentor ,,association1 ,,inc4 ,illustration3 ,,in ,,the ,,national ,,arts ,,club4 ,,new ,,york ,,city ,,the ,,call ,,of ,,the ,,flute4 ,,by ,e4 ,,irving ,,couse 8,,the ,,call ,,of ,,the ,,flute10 by ,e4 ,irving ,couse1 an idyl of ,indian life1 is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating 8,painters of ,western ,life40 ,e4 ,,irving ,,couse ,monograph ,number ,four in ,the ,mentor ,reading ,course ,scattered here and there throughout the ,southwest in unfrequented valleys along the ,rio ,grande and on almost inaccessible mesa 7may-sah7 tops1 buried in the sandy and waterless ,painted ,desert1 are found the villages and fields of a people whom the early ,spaniards called ,pueblos 7pooeb-lo71 to distinguish them from their roving neighbors1 the plains ,indians1 who had neither fields nor fixed abode of any kind4 ,these peaceful1 home-loving people lived in great houses which they occupied in common--terraced pyramids of sun-dried bricks--and which were both fortress and dwelling4 ,it is among this interesting tribe of ,indians that ,e4 ,irving ,couse has spent much of his life4 ,he is not a native of the ,far ,west4 ,he was born at ,saginaw1 ,michigan1 ,september #c1 #ahff1 and went to ,new ,york for art study in the ,national ,academy of ,design4 ,from there he went to ,paris1 and took a course in art in the ,julian ,academy and the ,school of ,fine ,arts1 where his masters were the great ,french painter ,bouguereau1 ,t4 ,robert ,fleury1 ,ferrier1 and others4 ,he returned to ,america and established his studio in ,new ,york ,city1 where he soon made himself known4 ,in the years from #aijj to #aijb he was elected to the ,american ,water ,color ,society1 the ,new ,york ,water ,color ,club1 and the ,national ,academy of ,design4 ,about this time ,mr4 ,couse's interest became directed toward the life of the ,great ,southwest1 and he made a trip there which so fascinated him that he continued for years to visit and study the race of the ,pueblos4 ,these were most interesting and impressionable years4 ,he found a life new and full of fascination among the ,pueblos of ,taos 7tah-ose74 ,taos is the northernmost of the ,pueblos1 and consequently became the 8buffer state0 between the fierce ,apaches and the no less warlike plains tribes4 ,warrior bands from either side1 returning from a raid into the other's country1 were sure to fall upon the inoffensive ,pueblos of ,taos1 either to remove the sting of defeat or to increase the glory of victory4 ,as a result the ,indians of ,taos became the most warlike of the ,pueblo tribes1 and when the ,mokis 7mo-ki7 of northern ,arizona1 long before the coming of the ,spaniards under ,coronado in #afdj1 found even their rocky mesa tops to be insufficient protection against the marauding ,navajos 7nav-a-ho7 and ,apaches1 it was to ,taos they sent for aid4 ,taos planted a colony on a mesa top near them and called it ,tewa 7tay-wah74 ,this colony exists today1 and speaks the ,taos language1 not that of its ,moki neighbors4 ,but for all that the barbaric chant of the happy worker in the cornfields1 or at evening the low flute note of the love call springs more easily to his lips than the harsh war cry2 for the ,taos ,indian's heart is in his fields and his home tucked away in a canyon of the ,sangre de ,christo 7sahn-gray day kris-to7 ,mountains not far from the ,rio ,grande in northern ,new ,mexico4 ,mr4 ,couse has followed the ,indians in their hunts through the mountains they loved so well4 ,he has listened to the call of the flute in some mountain glade or the player's prayer to the god of the waters beside some rushing stream4 ,he has learned the ,pueblos' ways of thought and action1 and has recorded much of it on canvas4 ,living in such close touch with the ,pueblos1 gaining and holding their faith and confidence1 watching with deep understanding the growth of his models from boyhood to manhood1 he has come as close to the spirit of the ,indian as white man ever can4 ,,prepared ,,by ,,the ,,editorial ,,staff ,,of ,,the ,,mentor ,,association ,,illustration ,,for ,,the ,,mentor4 ,,vol4 #c4 ,no4 #i4 ,,serial ,no4 #he ,,copyright1 #aiae1 ,,by ,,the ,,mentor ,,association1 ,,inc4 ,illustration3 ,,from ,,the ,,painting ,,in ,,the ,,collection ,,of ,,dr ,,walter ,b4 ,,james ,,courtesy ,,knoedler ,,co4 ,,the ,,silence ,,broken ,,by ,,george ,,de ,f4 ,,brush 8,,the ,,silence ,,broken10 by ,george de ,forest ,brush1 which pictures the poetry of the primitive ,indian nature1 is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating 8,painters of ,western ,life40 ,,george ,,de ,,forest ,,brush ,monograph ,number ,five in ,the ,mentor ,reading ,course ,mr4 ,brush is known as a painter of other subjects than those to be found in the ,far ,west4 ,his portraits have great distinction4 ,it is1 however1 as one of the painters of the ,great ,west that he is considered here1 and in that field of art he ranks among the very first4 ,he was born at ,shelbyville1 ,tennessee1 in ,september1 #ahee4 ,he studied in ,paris1 and was a pupil of the great ,grme4 ,some say that his work shows the influence of his master1 especially in the trim finish of his technic and in his fondness for embodying a story in his pictures4 ,unlike ,grme1 however1 ,brush did not search the classics nor the life of the ,far ,east for subjects4 ,we find no ,roman chariot races nor scenes from ,scripture on his canvases4 ,his thoughts were always of his country1 and he found his material in the ,north ,american ,indians4 ,in doing so he took a position among painters of western life that is peculiarly his own4 ,mr4 ,brush is a thoughtful student1 with a fine1 poetic imagination4 ,interest drew him to the ,indians4 ,his desire was to discover 8in their present condition a clue to their past40 ,as one appreciative critic has put it1 8he attempted to recreate the spacious1 empty world in which they lived a life that was truly primitive1 unmixed with any alloy of the white man's bringing2 and to interpret not only the externals of their life1 but its inwardness1 as with mingled stolidity and simplicity these men-children looked out upon the phenomena of nature1 fronted the mystery of death1 and peered into the stirrings of their own souls40 ,take the very picture that accompanies this description1 8,the ,silence ,broken10 for example4 ,a swan has burst from a bank of foliage immediately above the head of an ,indian in a canoe4 ,we are conscious of the rush of sound1 vibrating through the vast isolation4 ,the ,indian looks up1 but does not cease his paddling4 ,he kneels in the boat1 8a figure of monumental composure40 ,it is in pictures like this that ,brush conveys in eloquent terms on canvas an impression of the solemn romance of those primitive human creatures4 ,mr4 ,brush has his studio in ,new ,york ,city1 and usually spends his summer in ,new ,hampshire4 ,his work will receive attention again in ,the ,mentor when the portrait painters of ,america are considered4 ,,prepared ,,by ,,the ,,editorial ,,staff ,,of ,,the ,,mentor ,,association ,,illustration ,,for ,,the ,,mentor4 ,,vol4 #c4 ,no4 #i4 ,,serial ,no4 #he ,,copyright1 #aiae1 ,,by ,,the ,,mentor ,,association1 ,,inc4 ,illustration3 ,,copyright1 #aiab ,,courtesy ,,the ,,snedecor ,,galleries1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,an ,,argument ,,with ,,the ,,sheriff4 ,,by ,w4 ,r4 ,,leigh 8,,an ,,argument ,,with ,,the ,,sheriff10 by ,w4 ,r4 ,leigh1 a mortal encounter between a sheriff and horse thieves1 is the subject of one of the intaglio-gravure pictures illustrating 8,painters of ,western ,life40 ,,william ,r4 ,,leigh ,monograph ,number ,six in ,the ,mentor ,reading ,course ,as the ,irish would say1 the best way to tell about a man is to let him tell about himself4 ,mr4 ,leigh1 who was born in ,west ,virginia in #ahff1 has been well known for years as a magazine and book illustrator1 and has lately come into a new renown as a painter of great western pictures4 ,he tells his own story in a very simple1 straightforward way3 8,on my father's plantation my earliest recollections10 he says1 8are of drawing animals on slate or cutting them out of paper4 ,for one of the latter ,i was awarded a prize of a dollar at a county fair1 when four or five years old4 ,i began drawing from nature at ten1 and at twelve was awarded #ajj by the great art collector1 ,mr4 ,corcoran1 of ,washington1 after he had seen a drawing ,i had made of a dog4 ,at fourteen ,i went to ,baltimore and studied in the ,maryland ,institute for three years4 ,i got first awards each year in the school1 and in the winter of the third year was appointed teacher of drawing in the night school4 ,at this time ,mr4 ,corcoran gave me another #ajj4 8,at seventeen ,i went to ,munich1 ,bavaria1 and worked one year under ,professor ,rouffe in the antique class1 then two years under ,professor ,gyses in the nature class1 and one year in what was called the #8painting school1' gaining three bronze medals altogether4 8,at this time ,i was forced to go back to ,america and start to make my living4 ,i spent a year in ,baltimore1 and saved up #cjj1 with which ,i returned to ,munich and the #8painting school4' ,in the middle of the winter when my funds were exhausted ,i went out looking for employment4 ,it was not to be had for months2 but during the following spring ,i was engaged by an artist to help him with some mural pictures4 ,he did me out of almost everything ,i had1 and left me destitute and in debt4 8,however1 sometime after this ,i got work with ,philip ,fleisch to help him on a cyclorama which represented the ,battle of ,waterloo4 ,fleisch found me useful enough to advance me sufficient money to get through the year so that ,i might help him the following season on another cyclorama4 ,i entered the composition school of the ,academy1 painted a picture which gained me a silver medal1 the highest award in the ,academy1 and an honorable mention in the ,paris ,salon4 ,i sold that picture for #a1jjj1 and it is now in ,denver1 ,colorado4 ,five more years were occupied in painting five more cycloramas and some pictures in between1 one of which gained me a second silver medal from the ,academy4 8,overwork had by this time got me into bad health1 and ,i returned to ,new ,york1 where ,i soon recovered4 ,i worked for several years in ,new ,york1 painting many portraits1 two of which hang in ,washington ,lee ,university1 also many pictures both landscape and figure1 and a great deal of magazine and book illustrating4 ,latterly ,i have turned my attention to the ,far ,west in response to a desire that has been in me since boyhood40 ,,prepared ,,by ,,the ,,editorial ,,staff ,,of ,,the ,,mentor ,,association ,,illustration ,,for ,,the ,,mentor4 ,,vol4 #c4 ,no4 #i4 ,,serial ,no4 #he ,,copyright1 #aiae1 ,,by ,,the ,,mentor ,,association1 ,,inc4 ,,painters of ,,western ,,life ,by ,,arthur ,,hoeber ,author and ,artist ,illustration3 ,copyright by ,e4 ,irving ,couse ,,the ,,drummer1 by ,e4 ,irving ,couse ,,mentor ,,gravures ,,the ,,last ,,stand ,by ,frederic ,remington ,,wild ,,horse ,,hunters ,by ,charles ,m4 ,russell ,,my ,,bunkie ,by ,charles ,schreyvogel ,,the ,,call ,,of ,,the ,,flute ,by ,e4 ,irving ,couse ,,the ,,silence ,,broken ,by ,george de ,f4 ,brush ,,an ,,argument ,,with ,,the ,,sheriff ,by ,w4 ,r4 ,leigh ,illustration ,,the ,,mentor ,,department ,,of ,,fine ,,arts ,,june #ae1 #aiae ,entered at the ,post-office at ,new ,york1 ,n4 ,y41 as second-class matter4 ,copyright1 #aiae1 by ,the ,mentor ,association1 ,inc4 ,the present generation has taken its pictures of life in the ,far ,west mainly through the paintings of such artists as ,frederic ,remington1 ,charles ,m4 ,russell1 ,charles ,schreyvogel1 and others who will be referred to in this article4 ,and yet two of these men--,remington and ,schreyvogel--who were our contemporaries are already dead1 and it was only about eighty-four years ago that the first ,american artists went to the land of the setting sun to paint the ,indian in his native lair4 ,this artist was a young ,philadelphian named ,george ,catlin1 a lawyer by profession1 who was born in #agif and died in #ahgb4 ,though trained for the bar1 his artistic tendencies were too strong for him4 ,he set forth in #ahcj1 with practically no knowledge of the technic of art1 going as a guest of ,governor ,clark of ,st4 ,louis1 then ,united ,states superintendent of ,indian affairs4 ,governor ,clark went for the purpose of arranging treaties with the ,winnebagos1 ,menominees1 ,shawanos1 ,foxes1 and others1 and the opportunities for young ,catlin were unusual4 ,,catlin ,,and ,,cary1 ,,the ,,pioneer ,,painters ,illustration3 ,,one ,,of ,,catlin',s ,,indians ,a second trip the next season inspired ,catlin to still a third1 in #ahcb1 when he ascended the ,missouri on a steamer1 to the mouth of the ,yellowstone4 ,he returned some two thousand miles in a canoe with a companion1 and on the trip sketches were made of the ,crows1 ,blackfeet1 ,sioux1 and ,iowas4 ,it was all a revelation to ,catlin1 who made a serious study of the savage as far as his artistic equipment permitted4 ,subsequent trips followed1 and in #ahcf he accompanied a detachment of the first regiment of ,mounted ,dragoons to the ,comanches and other tribes4 ,these visits of course were at a time when the ,indians were in a primitive and picturesque condition1 before the change that was to come subsequently through association with the whites4 ,the result was an enormous collection of drawings and paintings1 together with many written accounts and descriptions of manners and customs1 and for years ,catlin reigned supreme in a field that no one had hitherto explored4 ,catlin1 however1 was far more interesting from a historical standpoint than from any artistic conception he gave to his theme4 ,with his indifferent training1 unfortunately1 he lacked imagination4 ,he recorded what he saw1 then a great novelty to the public2 but his work now arouses little emotion4 ,for years1 however1 engravings of his drawings1 colored reproductions1 and photographs were the only data for reference1 and as the artist was scrupulously correct in all details of adornment1 local color1 costume and implements1 manner of life and ceremonials1 his work still has considerable value4 ,the modern men do not by any means scorn taking a hint from him4 ,in the ,centennial ,exhibition in #ahgf1 a great showing of ,catlin's work was more or less in the nature of a sensation4 ,the next painter of the ,west was ,william de la ,m4 ,cary1 who in #ahfa made a trip across the plains with an army officer4 ,there was still plenty of excitement1 and the traveler had to be prepared against both wild man and beast4 ,mr4 ,cary made many sketches in the manner of ,catlin1 and sent home illustrations to the magazines1 occasionally recording the humorous side of his adventures4 ,his sketches were well received and appreciated4 ,,george ,,de ,,forest ,,brush ,some years ago ,george de ,forest ,brush gave considerable attention to the life of the ,indian1 and signed many pictures that remain classics in ,american art4 ,some of the themes were of the early ,aztecs4 ,among the titles were 8,the ,sculptor and the ,king0 and 8,aztec ,sculptor40 ,more modern works were 8,the ,silence ,broken10 8,mourning ,her ,brave10 8,indian ,hunter10 and many more1 all of them works of fine imagination and admirable composition lines4 ,mr4 ,brush1 who was born in ,tennessee in #ahee1 was a pupil of the ,paris government art school under the late ,j4 ,l4 ,grme 7zhay-rom71 and is a distinguished draftsman as he is a commanding figure in ,american art4 ,of recent years1 however1 he has chosen other fields in which to exploit his talent2 but of all the native painters1 he has brought to his work on the ,indian the best artistic equipment of any1 and of the dozen subjects of the aborigines all are unusual1 and of the highest excellence4 ,illustration3 ,copyright by ,w4 de la ,m4 ,cary 8,,forty-,,niners0 ,,crossing ,,the ,,plains ,by ,william de la ,m4 ,cary ,,remington ,,and ,,the ,,spirit ,,of ,,the ,,west ,the painters of the ,great ,west1 however1 were yet to come4 ,men were to arrive who would catch something of the spirit of the life there1 who were to record the romance of the savage1 the soldier1 the cowboy2 the latter in particular1--a picturesque group of men the outcome of peculiar conditions1 men who rounded up the cattle1 and were apparently a race apart1 of prodigious recklessness1 hardihood1 and bravery1 who lived in the saddle almost continuously1 save when occasionally they strayed into the frontier town to squander their pay4 ,these were1 as the late ,frederic ,remington quaintly phrased it1 8,men with the bark on40 ,remington 7#ahfa-aiji7 was himself to be the first of the modern group to treat the ,west with artistic sympathy1 and his name rises instantly when any mention is made of the plains4 ,first of all1 the man himself was a genuine lover of the open1 of nature in its wildest aspects4 ,for him the horse1 the prairie1 the blue sky6 ,he should have been an army officer4 ,he was1 almost2 for he accompanied the troops on many of their campaigns and was as well known to the captains as he was to the troopers and many of the ,indians4 ,illustration3 ,photo by ,davis ,sanford ,,frederic ,,remington ,somewhere about the middle '#hj's he began to send illustrations to the various periodicals2 crude affairs1 as he admitted later and himself characterized as 8half-baked40 ,but they had that vital1 convincing touch to them that meant subsequent success4 ,somehow1 even in his tentative efforts1 he had a vim and go that held the spectator4 ,the man knew his ,indian1 soldier1 cowboy1 hunter1 from the ground up4 ,they had in them plenty of red blood1 even though the first drawings were crude4 ,there was that about them which disclosed astonishing feeling1 clear insight into character1 distinct sympathy4 ,the public was profoundly interested1 and saw great promise4 ,nor was there any disappointment2 for the man made rapid progress4 ,his ,indian fairly reeked of savagery2 his soldier was an epitome of the hard-working1 modest1 simple1 splendid man of action2 his cowboy was a picturesque and vital character4 ,it is almost pathetic to realize that so commonplace and commercial an invention as a wire fence was the means of doing away with the cowboy4 ,this introduction of a cheap and effective means of coralling the animals at one fell swoop put the cowboy out of business1 destroyed forever the usefulness of this race of picturesque1 hard-riding1 reckless youth of the plains4 ,mr4 ,cowboy rides on his raids but seldom now4 ,remington knew these cowboys well4 ,he had mingled with them1 ridden after the herds1 joined in their boisterous revels1 and there came from his brush and pencil a picturesque lot of out-of-door characters1 to the very life4 ,remington had camped in the open1 had ridden hard and long1 had been with the ,united ,states cavalry in its expeditions1 was the intimate of the officers and men of the then little army of this nation1 and he saw history made4 ,in all this crowd there was no more picturesque figure1 whether cowboy1 ,indian1 or soldier1 than ,remington himself4 ,he wrote as entertainingly as he painted1 and before his death 7he was stricken untimely7 was to follow his beloved comrades in the army as war correspondent to ,cuba1 in the ,spanish ,war4 ,it is nowise to the disparagement of the men who followed ,remington to say that they were all under an everlasting debt of gratitude to him for his initial insight into the breezy outlook on life in the ,far ,west1 and for his way of presenting his facts4 ,remington was an indefatigable worker1 constantly filling his sketch-book with notes1 and making mental memoranda of the happenings about him4 ,and he showed steady progress in the technic of his art1 each succeeding picture disclosing genuine advance4 ,nor was he content simply with painting and drawing4 ,he sought artistic expression in sculpture too1 modeling much during the later years of his life with great success4 ,personally1 the man was a delight to a host of friends1 with his inimitable stories1 his genial manner1 and his thorough naturalness4 ,one of the best known of his sculptural works is 8,the ,broncho ,buster10 which has long been a public favorite1 and been reproduced in bronze4 ,,russell1 ,,the ,,cowboy ,,artist ,illustration3 ,copyright by ,c4 ,m4 ,russell ,a ,,dangerous ,,cripple ,by ,charles ,m4 ,russell ,there followed ,remington an artist very distinctive of the soil1 one who was of the land in that he had been a veritable cowboy1 knew his ,west thoroughly1 had lived with the ,indians1 spoke several of the tribal languages1 and1 still more useful accomplishment1 was familiar with that picturesque1 poetic1 universal means of communication among savages of the ,great ,west1 the sign language4 ,this was ,charles ,m4 ,russell 7#ahfe74 ,in ,great ,falls1 ,montana1 where he lives and has a home and studio1 he is one of the institutions4 ,few travelers in that part of this country fail to pay him a visit4 ,they call him the 8,cowboy ,painter10 and with reason2 for during several years he followed that profession4 ,also he lived long among the ,indians1 sharing their camps1 their food1 riding after game1 winter and summer1 dwelling with them as a brother4 ,illustration3 ,,charles ,m4 ,,russell ,the ,cowboy ,artist ,though he always drew pictures1 he never saw the inside of an art school1 nor had he ever a teacher4 ,artistically1 like ,topsy1 he just grew4 ,he cannot recollect the time when a lead pencil did not seem part of his equipment1 and he filled sketchbooks with notes4 ,somewhere about #ahib he concluded to take up seriously the profession of artist1 and turned his attention to illustrative work4 ,among his efforts in this direction were drawings for ,stewart ,edward ,white's delightful 8,arizona ,nights10 ,emerson ,hough's 8,story of the ,outlaw10 and ,wheeler's 8,trail of ,lewis and ,clark40 ,russell went from ,st4 ,louis1 his birthplace1 to ,montana when he was but a lad1 so that he learned much of woodcraft and the ways of the plainsman4 ,today there are few who excel him in throwing the lariat2 he is an adept with the pistol2 horses are second nature to him2 buffaloes he hunted and killed by the hundred in earlier days4 ,so it will be seen that when ,mr4 ,russell started in to paint the ,west he was reasonably well equipped and rendered whereof he knew4 ,since some years now stern men in blue and khaki have seen to it that the ,indian is kept on his reservation2 business men with the wire fences now look after the interests of investors in ranch property2 life in the ,west has lost much of its picturesqueness2 civilization and order control affairs4 ,but ,russell's memory of all these earlier conditions remains4 ,so distinctly were his first illustrations of the soil that they attracted the attention of some of the ,english weeklies1 which made arrangements for his work4 ,from this to painting was an easy transition4 ,no one was more surprised at his sudden success than the artist himself1 who had drawn these pictures because of his great love of the work and to whom financial gain was the last consideration4 ,so it came about that ,mr4 ,russell turned his attention to compositions of various sorts1--the lassoing of cattle1 the intimate glimpses of ,indian life1 the ways of the cowboys1 and occasionally episodes of army life4 ,they were all true transcripts1 painted with considerable sympathy and enthusiasm4 ,many of his pictures found favor in ,england1 titled people of that nation hunting in the ,west regarding these canvases not only entertaining but as remarkably faithful4 ,he has been spoken of as the painter of the 8,west that has ,passed40 ,like ,remington1 ,mr4 ,russell has attempted with no little success the task of representing by sculpture some of the ,indians and animals of the plains4 ,,schreyvogel',s 8,,my ,,bunkie0 ,illustration3 ,,charles ,,schreyvogel ,during the exhibition at the ,national ,academy of ,design in ,new ,york in #aijj a young painter awoke one fine morning to find himself famous4 ,he was a youth of ,german extraction by the name of ,charles ,schreyvogel 7#ahfa-aiab71 and his painting1 8,my ,bunkie10 was the sensation of the display4 ,it was an episode of the ,united ,states army campaign against the ,indians1 a cavalryman rescuing his chum1 whom he had drawn up on his horse4 ,another painter of western life had appeared1 and had made astonishingly good4 ,schreyvogel followed this picture with many more of no less excellence4 ,he painted the life of the plains1--the ,indian hunting the buffalo1 attacking settlers1 at his war dance1 the fighting of the ,american trooper1--in short1 he disclosed a fine pictorial insight in that wild and stirring life that has now practically passed away4 ,illustration3 ,copyright1 #aijj1 by ,charles ,schreyvogel4 ,a ,,hot ,,trail ,by ,charles ,schreyvogel ,e4 ,,irving ,,couse ,trained in the ,paris schools1 ,e4 ,irving ,couse 7#ahff-71 after doing some decorative work1 devoted his attention entirely to painting the ,indians of the ,southwest1 depicting rather the intimate life out of doors1 or at the peaceful occupation of weaving1 hunting1 and other distractions4 ,he gives these canvases a decorative treatment1 and they disclose an intimate knowledge of his subject4 ,mr4 ,couse has a studio at ,taos1 ,new ,mexico1 and is represented in many public collections throughout the country4 ,besides he has had many medals and honors4 ,,painters ,,of ,,plain ,,and ,,forest ,another artist to paint the same sort of subject with distinguished success is ,ernest ,l4 ,blumenschein 7#ahgd-71 who began as an illustrator1 and after work at portraiture became interested in the life of the ,indian4 ,he too went some years ago to ,taos1 where quite a colony of painters assembled4 ,his first important picture to attract attention was his 8,wiseman1 ,warrior1 and ,youth10 a group of three characteristic red men4 ,both ,mr4 ,couse and ,mr4 ,blumenschein may be said to represent the 8tame0 ,indian2 for all their canvases depict the savages at peaceful occupations4 ,w4 ,herbert ,dunton is still another of the ,taos colony1 where he paints much of the year2 though he gives attention to illustrative work as well4 ,he has seized upon the characteristics of the ,indian with artistic fidelity4 ,illustration3 ,e4 ,,irving ,,couse ,in ,his ,studio ,in a similar manner ,n4 ,c4 ,wyeth1 both in painting and in illustrative work1 has been no less successful4 ,mr4 ,wyeth was a pupil of the late ,howard ,pyle1 whose influence is felt strongly in his work4 ,other pupils of that noted illustrator have attained distinctive positions in portraying varied forms of ,western life4 ,the legends and traditions of the ,indian have attracted ,remington ,schuyler4 ,the pictorial aspect of his active life in the open1 together with his contact with wild animal life1 has supplied subjects for ,philip ,goodwin2 while the life of the frontiersman and the pioneer has inspired the sturdy work of ,allen ,true and ,harvey ,dunn4 ,these five men have pictured the ,west in the same large spirit in which their master worked in rendering the buccaneers of the sea and the continental soldier4 ,most of the painters of the ,west have been illustrators first and painters later4 ,at ,cody1 ,wyoming1 for a large part of the year lives ,william ,r4 ,leigh4 ,he was born in ,west ,virginia in #ahff4 ,he was a pupil of the ,munich art schools1 and received medals in ,paris4 ,he has painted much of the ,west that has passed1--of ,indian and soldier1 of settler and cowboy1 of some of the battles of the '#fj's between the ,united ,states troops and the savages1--and has given some of the wonderful landscape backgrounds1 devoting no less attention to the extraordinary local color than to the figure4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,house ,,of ,e4 ,,irving ,,couse ,at ,taos1 ,new ,mexico ,edward ,w4 ,deming1 who has both painted and modeled the ,indian1 executed some years ago a large decoration for the home of ,mrs4 ,e4 ,h4 ,harriman1 at ,arden1 ,new ,york1 with the title 8,the ,hunt10 showing the red men after big game4 ,similarly ,maynard ,dixon has executed decorative work of the ,indian for some ,california homes4 ,his training was through several years of illustrative work for the magazines1 and in this work he always had a distinctly decorative composition of his subject1 though his rendering was realistic and virile4 ,illustration3 ,,wiseman1 ,,warrior1 ,,youth ,by ,e4 ,l4 ,blumenschein ,howard ,mc,cormack1 who studied the ,southwest as far as ,mexico1 has also given attention to decorative work with the ,indian for his theme4 ,another who began as illustrator is ,j4 ,n4 ,marchand1 who now paints the story-telling picture of the prospector and the cowboy4 ,he knows well his types and the color of their setting4 ,the name of ,de ,cost ,smith is frequently signed to strong ,indian pictures4 ,his 8,defiance10 a group of ,indian warriors on the crest of a hill1 shown a dozen years ago1 had great vitality and beauty4 ,louis ,aitken was one who had much of that vitality and beauty--but he passed away too early for great fame4 ,another who is now known in mural work1 ,w4 de ,leftwith ,dodge1 began his career in ,paris by showing in the ,salon the 8,death of ,minnehaha0 and 8,burial of a ,brave10 subjects novel to that old art center4 ,in recent water color exhibitions still another illustrator1 ,frank ,tenney ,johnson1 has had many distinguished showings of the present day ,indian4 ,his oil paintings1 too1 are full of the poetry of the open4 ,moonlight and sun-glare are to him equally alluring4 ,two painters who glory in showing vast sketches of the open1 who use the human figure1 but minimize it in their pictures1 are ,frank ,vincent ,du ,mond and ,fernand ,lungren1 both permanent residents of the ,southwest4 ,illustration3 ,e4 ,l4 ,,blumenschein ,all painters of the ,west regard that country and its life with a deep reverence1 and this feeling shows in their work4 8,god's ,country10 though the familiar phrase of all1 expresses their enthusiasm and their devotion4 ,in subject it is the most distinctly ,american of all themes1 and enthusiasm for the theme will go on producing the technical skill to render it adequately4 ,some of these later men bring to their work a technical skill perhaps not possessed by the earlier men4 ,yet with this they lack some of the convincing quality of the pioneers4 ,for remaining traces of the picturesque the painter of today goes to ,new ,mexico1 where he finds even more color than farther north2 but there he has to portray the arts of peace rather than those of war4 ,who shall say his theme is no less satisfactory and inspiring8 ,certainly not we who have lived to see the art of combat brought up to the nth power6 ,illustration3 ,copyright1 ,the ,knapp ,company1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,custer',s ,,last ,,stand ,by ,w4 ,h4 ,dunton ,illustration3 ,w4 ,h4 ,,dunton ,the ,painter of the ,plains at ,work ,,the ,,indian ,,as ,,an ,,art ,,subject ,there is still infinite opportunity to make the subject of the ,indian an important factor in ,american art4 ,his decorative costume gives an element of color1 while his life of action gives rhythm and movement1 and the background of prairie and mountain provides dignity and grandeur for the composition4 ,in but little of the mural work has this opportunity been used1 though some of the decoration of state capitols has included isolated instances--,douglas ,volk in the ,minnesota capitol being one4 ,lawrence ,c4 ,earle has decorated a bank building with scenes of pioneer days4 ,ralph ,blakelock1 one of the most individual of painters1 in his best period pictured the ,indian4 ,elbridge ,a4 ,burbank has made many paintings of types and representatives of various tribes--since #ahig over #abe portraits4 ,h4 ,f4 ,farny1 who did fine illustrative work in the '#hj's1 has been one of the most prolific painters of the ,indian subject4 ,two of his best are 8,the ,silent ,guest0 and 8,renegade ,apaches40 ,joseph ,henry ,sharp has also been a tremendous producer of the western life picture4 ,he has painted nearly one hundred portraits of ,indians and ,indian pictures for the ,university of ,california and eleven ,indian portraits for the ,smithsonian ,institution1 ,washington4 ,sculptors have made ample use of the ,indian as a subject4 ,his muscular development1 as well as his stoicism1 is a monumental quality akin to certain aspects in the ,egyptians4 ,illustration3 ,copyright1 #aiad ,courtesy ,snedecor ,co4 ,,the ,,roping ,by ,w4 ,r4 ,leigh ,,supplementary ,,reading ,,crooked ,,trails ,by ,frederic ,remington ,,john ,,ermine ,,of ,,the ,,yellowstone ,by ,frederic ,remington ,,men ,,with ,,the ,,bark ,,on ,by ,frederic ,remington ,,pony ,,tracks ,by ,frederic ,remington ,,stories ,,of ,,peace ,,and ,,war ,by ,frederic ,remington ,,sundown ,,leflare1 ,short ,stories ,by ,frederic ,remington ,,the ,,way ,,of ,,an ,,indian ,by ,frederic ,remington ,all of these books are descriptions and stories of life in the ,great ,west as ,remington saw it4 ,they are all illustrated by the artist and author4 ,,good ,,hunting ,,and ,,pursuit ,,of ,,big ,,game ,,in ,,the ,,west ,by ,theodore ,roosevelt ,,hunting ,,trips ,,of ,a ,,ranchman ,by ,theodore ,roosevelt ,,ranch ,,life ,,and ,,the ,,hunting ,,trail ,by ,theodore ,roosevelt ,illustrated by ,frederic ,remington ,,my ,,bunkie ,,and ,,others ,a volume of pictures by ,charles ,schreyvogel ,,recollections ,,of ,,frederic ,,remington ,by ,augustus ,thomas ,century ,magazine1 ,july1 #aiac4 ,,the ,,open ,,letter ,illustration3 ,,buffalo ,,hunt4 ,by ,george ,catlin ,in the art of 8,the ,painters of ,western ,life10 the artist himself plays an important part4 ,remington1 ,schreyvogel1 ,russell1 and the rest were explorers and discoverers4 ,someone has said that ,remington was essentially a reporter1 that he never became a 8painter's painter10 but that he was the people's favorite through the subjects he chose4 ,the phrase1 8art for art's sake10 fades into the background as these vivid pictures of life in the ,great ,west blaze out on the canvas4 ,every stroke of the brushes of these men shows that they lived and did things1 and that they were more concerned about reporting results than about methods4 99 99 99 99 99 ,some of the earlier attempts to picture the ,west are crude1 and scarcely to be classed as art4 ,the name of ,catlin is not even mentioned in two of the leading standard works on ,american painting4 ,he was not a professional artist3 he was a lawyer1 and he set out to explore the ,west and to report on the conditions that he found there4 ,his pictures1 therefore1 though not reckoned with as art productions1 are most valuable records4 ,the accompanying illustration1 showing an ,indian buffalo hunt1 is an example4 ,the scene itself is now a part of past history4 ,we don't hunt buffaloes any more3 we collect them1 and we regard ourselves as very fortunate today in possessing herds of buffalo gathered and fostered by the public spirited liberality of ,mr4 ,william ,c4 ,whitney and ,mr4 ,austin ,corbin4 ,catlin was followed into the ,west by men who knew much more about art than he2 but the object they all sought was the same4 ,each one of them had stories to tell of the ,redman and his life and habits1 of the fights and friendships of cavalrymen1 of the adventures of cowboys1 and in their pictures these subjects were more to them than the purely artistic qualities displayed in their representation4 ,there is1 of course1 much to admire in their art4 ,their execution is vigorous1 direct and sure4 ,but the historical value of their paintings makes fully as strong an appeal to us as their art interest4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the eminent art critic1 ,samuel ,isham1 characterized ,remington as an illustrator rather than a painter4 8,the authoritative chronicler10 he said1 8of the whole western land1 from ,assiniboine to ,mexico1 and of all men and beasts dwelling therein1 is ,frederic ,remington4 ,he1 at least1 cannot be said to have sacrificed truth to grace4 ,the raw1 crude light1 the burning sand1 the pitiless blue sky1 surround the lank1 sunburned men who ride the rough horses1 and fight1 or drink1 or herd cattle1 as the case may be40 ,mr4 ,isham points out that the work of these men 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