OGDENSBURG The Frederic Remington Art Museum’s 2021 College Student Juried Art Exhibition will open on Saturday, Feb. 27. The exhibit will be on view in the Museum’s Richard E. Winter Gallery & Torrey Family Gallery and online at www.fredericremington.org. However, because of the ongoing need for social distancing, the opening reception will take place online via Zoom.
The public is invited to a special virtual reception on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 2 to 3 p.m. The reception offers an opportunity to view the entire group of artworks in the show, and to talk with the artists and the juror. If you would like to attend the virtual reception, please email Laura Desmond at desmond@fredericremington.org for a digital invitation.
OGDENSBURG â The Frederic Remington Art Museumâs new executive director, Lora A. Nadolski-Hanson, brings with her a new perspective to the city landmark.
She has plenty of experience working in the museum world, but the museums Ms. Nadolski-Hanson has previously worked at focused mainly on history rather than art. As a result, this role will allow for Ms. Nadolski-Hanson to flex her creative side and bring about a fresh vision for the museum. She officially started her new role Dec. 1 of last year.
âIâm bringing in years of running other nonprofits and museums and a fresh set of eyes,â Ms. Nadolski-Hanson said of her new position. âThe previous museums I worked at were mostly history museums, rather than art museums, which lets us look at what weâre doing in a similar but new way.â
The Frederic S. Remington bronze sculpture, âBronco Buster,â a fixture in the Oval Office of the White House since the presidency of Jimmy Carter in 1976, has apparently ridden off into the sunset as part of the decorating scheme of President Joseph Biden.
It was just one of the changes that President Biden made to the office. American presidents traditionally decorate the Oval Office to reflect their personal concerns and whims.
Mr. Remington (1861-1909) was a painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer who specialized in depictions of the American Old West. He was born in Canton and is buried in the villageâs Evergreen Cemetery. The Frederic Remington Art Museum is in Ogdensburg, where its two âBronco Bustersâ are highly prized.
Double take: A closer look at American bronze sculpture Editorial Staff
The Magazine ANTIQUES November 2006.
Bronze sculpture made in the United States between 1845 and 1945 was little studied and largely undervalued until it began to attract interest in the early 1980s. It now continues to gain attention from scholars, museum curators, and collectors. Broadening scholarship has brought recognition to the variety, quality, and importance of this field of American art, just as the market value of sculpture continues to rise. What is lagging behind this expanding appreciation by the public and in the marketplace is connoisseurship. This article is intended as a primer on how to look critically at bronze casts in order to judge them for quality and authenticity.
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He taught me that if someone doesn’t see the point of what you are doing they lack “vision”, carry on and dazzle them with your creation when they see your final product. No matter how long it takes. In his case, it took eight phenomenal decades.
He had vision, dedication and artistic ability on a level that never ceased to amaze us. He once admitted to us children, that he would never tell us the full extent of his projects, as he knew we would have quit helping once we saw the true scope of the project… What we saw as chain gang type of labor he saw as the happiest times of his day. He instilled in his children a work ethic that can’t be shaken; (I’m not sure if we should thank him for that!)