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Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909). Colored lithograph. 1904 (possibly 1902). A depiction of a Native American male, lying flat with outstretched arms, likely inebriated as there is a bottle of alcohol beneath his hand - with a companion sitting beside him. In the background are quaint domiciles with a hilly landscape beyond. Frederic Remington is the most famous turn-of-the-century illustrator, painter, and sculptor of western-themed subjects. He studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League in New York but in the 1880s headed out to the American West and captured both the realism and the romanticism of the fading frontier in a prolific outpouring of drawings, paintings, and sculptures. Many of his illustrations appeared in magazines such as Outing Magazine, Harper's Weekly, and Scribner's. In addition, he illustrated several books and articles for Theodore Roosevelt as well as Frances Parkman's Oregon Trail. Size: 9.375" W x 11.375" H (23.8 cm x 28.9 cm); 17.25" W x 20.5" H (43.8 cm x 52.1 cm) framed.

According to the "Authentic History Center: Primary Sources for American Popular Culture" website, "The building of the transcontinental railroad, the destruction of the buffalo, and the resulting Plains Indian Wars devastated the Plains Indian culture. Confined to reservations and forbidden to hunt, they became wards of the federal government, reliant on sporadically delivered welfare for their very survival. This new reality plunged the American Plains Indian into a state of cultural shock and poverty ripe for the spread of alcoholism. Subsequent Government policy, whether it be attempts to create reservations, disband reservations, assimilate Indians, or to obliterate Indian culture created an astonishing range of Native American social pathologies associated with alcohol that continue to the present day. Euro-Americans played the multidimensional role of creating this environment, supplying the alcohol, and then perpetuating stereotypes of Indians by identifying alcoholism as a sign of some inherent weakness that justified the centuries of treatment they received and the righteousness of their subjugation."

Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection

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Print has not been examined outside the frame but appears to be in good condition save minor fading. Handwritten in lower left margin "By Remington (1904)". Minor tears to gallery paper on verso. Minor scuffs to the frame.