Frederic Remington's sculpture and paintings are almost synonymous with the spirit of the West in the minds of many Americans. Naturally inclined toward outdoor life, Remington spent little time in formal study. His three years at Yale's School of Art gave him "a smattering" of technique, but he was soon traveling in the West, visiting Indian encampments and detailing cavalry and cowboy life. Remington's magazine work was well known before the turn of the century. His struggle to be appreciated as a serious artist and not simply an illustrator was successful, and by the early 1900s he had achieved celebrity as a talented painter and sculptor. His beautifully balanced sculptures of the early 1900s depicted the action-filled Old West as he remembered it. The Cheyenne (1901), Comin' Through the Rye (1902-1904), and Bronco Buster (1905) are some of his best-known pieces. Remington, who died at...