The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush) Painting - Framed Art Print Size:30×40 cm • Opacity: 94%

• Opacity: 94%

and commissioned Kidd to copy it and other of his bird subjects in oil for display in a traveling exhibition Audubon planned but never realized

sketchlike finish of this work is characteristic of Millet's late style: patches of the dark lilac-pink ground color are deliberately exposed

Artist: After John James Audubon (American (born Haiti)

The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush) Painting - Framed Art Print Size:30×40 cm • Opacity: 94%About the Art: Frederic Remington crafted this scene of bloody confrontation for his white eastern audiences, who understood the West as a place of both danger and opportunity. An unseen Sioux warrior has shot a cavalry scout, who slumps over his horse while the troops behind him flee the ambush. A sculptor and illustrator as well as a painter, Remington was famous for his dynamic compositions of frontier life, which presented mythic, romanticized