The Fall of the Cowboy ☰ Remington ☶ Art Print windmills Entrance to the port of

Entrance to the port of La Rochelle (1921

the cropped composition uses dominant areas of color

flanked by 20 views of prominent Dutch cities

View of Delft (1661

and a loving couple

The Fall of the Cowboy ☰ Remington ☶ Art Print windmills Entrance to the port ofThe Fall of the Cowboy (1895) by Frederic Remington depicts two cowboys at the gate of a barbed wire fence, a ranching technology that beginning in the 1870s signaled the end of cowboy life. It divides the painting in half, symbolically fencing in the cowboys. At the suggestion of Remington, Owen Wister wrote "The Evolution of the Cow Puncher" for Harper's Monthly in 1895, lamenting the end of the open range. Accompanying it were several illustrations