The Last Stand
1896
Frederic Remington throws us right into the dust and chaos of Custer’s Last Stand in this intense 1896 scene. In the foreground, a desperate group of soldiers fights for survival—three kneel firing their rifles while one heroically carries a wounded comrade on his back. Meanwhile, a wave of Native American warriors on horseback charges across the plains in the background, closing in for the kill. As the artist who basically invented the visual language of the American West, Remington uses gritty, muted earth tones to capture the raw desperation of this legendary final battle.
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