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2001 34c American Illustrator: Frederic Remington
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U.S. #3502p
Frederic Remington
34¢ American Illustrators
Issue Date: February 1, 2001
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 125,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison Security Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine die cut 11.25
Color: Multicolored
Frederic Remington made his first trip west at age nineteen, traveling through the Montana Territory to see firsthand the open prairies, cattle drives, and remaining cavalry campaigns he had only imagined growing up in New York. That early journey, taken largely on a whim, gave him a direct familiarity with the region that later Western artists who never actually lived the life often lacked, and he spent the next several years sampling sheepherding, prospecting, and cowboy work across the Southwest before turning that experience into art.
This stamp reproduces "A Dash for the Timber," one of Remington's dramatic action scenes of riders fleeing at full gallop under fire, a theme he returned to often in illustrating the tension and danger of frontier life. Remington built his early reputation on black and white illustrations for magazines and books, including Theodore Roosevelt's "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail," before expanding into oil painting and eventually bronze sculpture in the 1890s, determined to be recognized as more than just an illustrator. His bronze "Bronco Buster" became one of his most enduring works.
Remington produced several thousand paintings, drawings, and sculptures depicting cowboys, Native Americans, and the US Cavalry during the final decades of the American frontier, and his vision of that era shaped how generations of Americans pictured the Old West. This stamp belongs to a sheet of twenty honoring American illustrators whose work shaped magazines, posters, books, and advertisements throughout the 20th century, part of the Classic Collection series the Postal Service had produced since the mid 1990s.
U.S. #3502p
Frederic Remington
34¢ American Illustrators
Issue Date: February 1, 2001
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 125,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison Security Printing
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine die cut 11.25
Color: Multicolored
Frederic Remington made his first trip west at age nineteen, traveling through the Montana Territory to see firsthand the open prairies, cattle drives, and remaining cavalry campaigns he had only imagined growing up in New York. That early journey, taken largely on a whim, gave him a direct familiarity with the region that later Western artists who never actually lived the life often lacked, and he spent the next several years sampling sheepherding, prospecting, and cowboy work across the Southwest before turning that experience into art.
This stamp reproduces "A Dash for the Timber," one of Remington's dramatic action scenes of riders fleeing at full gallop under fire, a theme he returned to often in illustrating the tension and danger of frontier life. Remington built his early reputation on black and white illustrations for magazines and books, including Theodore Roosevelt's "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail," before expanding into oil painting and eventually bronze sculpture in the 1890s, determined to be recognized as more than just an illustrator. His bronze "Bronco Buster" became one of his most enduring works.
Remington produced several thousand paintings, drawings, and sculptures depicting cowboys, Native Americans, and the US Cavalry during the final decades of the American frontier, and his vision of that era shaped how generations of Americans pictured the Old West. This stamp belongs to a sheet of twenty honoring American illustrators whose work shaped magazines, posters, books, and advertisements throughout the 20th century, part of the Classic Collection series the Postal Service had produced since the mid 1990s.
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