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An Al-Luring Show

Our traveling exhibition Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum opens tomorrow in Wilmington, Delaware!

Drop by the Delaware Art Museum's First USA River Front Arts Center from December 20 through February 16, 2003! Lure of the West features about sixty paintings and sculptures that celebrate the western landscape and pay tribute to Native American and Latino cultures. Fired on by Frederic Remington captures the spirit of the show.

This nighttime scene of surprise attack is the Wild West at its most dramatic, tragic, and romantic. It is no wonder that director John Ford based the cinematography of his Hollywood westerns on Remington's paintings. Though he was born in the East and trained as an artist at the Yale Art School, Remington, like no other artist since, made the West a uniquely American region and the mounted horseman a national symbol of adventure and courage.

Pictured: Frederic Remington, 1861–1909, Fired on, 1907, oil, 27 1/8 x 40 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.