Brown Bag Lunch

Typically thought of as a painter and sculptor today, Frederic Remington was best known to audiences in his time as an illustrator of books and magazines. He created the images for his 1906 novel, The Way of an Indian, which were also published as supplements in the Chicago Examiner. These prints are now among the least known of all those created by Remington specifically for reproduction as illustrations. Learn more about the way that Remington’s reproduction prints reflected and contributed to his rise to fame when Laura Foster speaks at noon on Thursday, October 5th, at the St. Lawrence County Historical Association. Brown Bag Lunches are free and open to the public. Bring your own lunch and enjoy a beverage and dessert provided by SLCHA. This Brown Bag Lunch program is part of the 16th Annual Remington Arts Festival and coincides with the opening of the exhibition, The Way of an Indian, curated by JeanMarie Martello and Meghan Catling. The Way of an Indian combines artwork in which First People depicted themselves with a number of Remington’s reproduction prints, crude drawings by missionaries, traditional portraiture, and commercialized images used for advertising in order to show the many ways that Native Americans have appeared in art throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Laura A. Foster began her museum career as curator of the Frederic Remington Art Museum in 1989, a role she continues to perform since being appointed the museum’s director in 2013. As the long-time curator of this accredited single artist museum, she has developed a deep expertise in her subject. She serves on the Frederic Remington Catalogue Raisonné examination committee with three other Remington scholars. The Brown Bag Lunch lecture and exhibit are part of the 16th Annual Remington Arts Festival in the village of Canton. Also during the Festival, the SLCHA will have children’s toys and games and nineteenth century costumes for dress-up fun in the front yard of the Silas Wright House on Saturday, October 7th from 11 am to 3 pm. All families, children, and the young-at-heart are welcome to try their hand at nineteenth century games like marbles and graces, and see how kids entertained themselves before batteries and computers! The museum and new exhibit will also be open to the public on October 7th from 10 am to 4 pm. #fredericremington #ogdensburghistory