1900
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Rushing Red Lodges Passed through the Line is a 1900 oil by Frederic Remington, a American Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a line of Native American riders galloping across a snowy pass, their red blankets flapping against the white ground. Remington painted this at night, using only a kerosene lamp. The flickering light made the reds glow like embers, while the rest of the scene stays dark and cold. He never visited this exact place—he worked from sketches and memory. If you like this, look up *impasto*—how thick paint can make snow and fabric feel real.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington Lent by the George F. Harding Museum , June 21–Oct. 10, 1969, as The Rushing Red Lodges Passed Through the Line of the Blue Soldiers .
Peter H. Hassrick, et al., Frederick Remington Catalogue Raisonné , accessed May 5, 2020, http://remington.centerofthewest.org , cat. 02526, as The Rushing Red Lodges Passed through the Line of the Blue Soldiers .
Read the full account in the museum source.
Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art.
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